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Building a complete inertial navigation system using the limited quality data provided by current smartphones has been regarded challenging, if not impossible. This paper shows that by careful crafting and accounting for the weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Arno Solin , Santiago Cortes , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

We present an approach for radar-inertial odometry which uses a continuous-time framework to fuse measurements from multiple automotive radars and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Adverse weather conditions do not have a significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Yin Zhi Ng , Benjamin Choi , Robby Tan , Lionel Heng

This paper describes an approach to building a cost-effective and research grade visual-inertial odometry aided vertical taking-off and landing (VTOL) platform. We utilize an off-the-shelf visual-inertial sensor, an onboard computer, and a…

Accurate robot odometry is essential for autonomous navigation. While numerous techniques have been developed based on various sensor suites, odometry estimation using only radar and IMU remains an underexplored area. Radar proves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lucia Coto Elena , Fernando Caballero , Luis Merino

Autonomous mobile robots operating in novel environments depend critically on accurate state estimation, often utilizing visual and inertial measurements. Recent work has shown that an invariant formulation of the extended Kalman filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Abdullah Altawaitan , Jason Stanley , Sambaran Ghosal , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov

Many smartphone applications use inertial measurement units (IMUs) to sense movement, but the use of these sensors for pedestrian localization can be challenging due to their noise characteristics. Recent data-driven inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Scott Sun , Dennis Melamed , Kris Kitani

Vision is an essential part of attitude control for many flying animals, some of which have no dedicated sense of gravity. Flying robots, on the other hand, typically depend heavily on accelerometers and gyroscopes for attitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jesse J. Hagenaars , Stein Stroobants , Sander M. Bohte , Guido C. H. E. De Croon

Advances in micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) techniques enable inertial measurements units (IMUs) to be small, cheap, energy efficient, and widely used in smartphones, robots, and drones. Exploiting inertial data for accurate and reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Changhao Chen , Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Wei Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

We propose Super Odometry, a high-precision multi-modal sensor fusion framework, providing a simple but effective way to fuse multiple sensors such as LiDAR, camera, and IMU sensors and achieve robust state estimation in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Shibo Zhao , Hengrui Zhang , Peng Wang , Lucas Nogueira , Sebastian Scherer

Odometry is crucial for robot navigation, particularly in situations where global positioning methods like global positioning system (GPS) are unavailable. The main goal of odometry is to predict the robot's motion and accurately determine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Dongjae Lee , Minwoo Jung , Wooseong Yang , Ayoung Kim

In this work, we propose an interoceptive-only state estimation system for a quadrotor with deep neural network processing, where the quadrotor dynamics is considered as a perceptive supplement of the inertial kinematics. To improve the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Kunyi Zhang , Chenxing Jiang , Jinghang Li , Sheng Yang , Teng Ma , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

We present a real-time monocular thermal-inertial odometry system designed for high-velocity, GPS-denied flight on embedded hardware. The system fuses measurements from a FLIR Boson+ 640 longwave infrared camera, a high-rate IMU, a laser…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Austin Stone , Mark Petersen , Cammy Peterson

Strapdown inertial navigation systems are sensitive to the quality of the data provided by the accelerometer and gyroscope. Low-grade IMUs in handheld smart-devices pose a problem for inertial odometry on these devices. We propose a scheme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Santiago Cortés , Arno Solin , Juho Kannala

Aggressive motions from agile flights or traversing irregular terrain induce motion distortion in LiDAR scans that can degrade state estimation and mapping. Some methods exist to mitigate this effect, but they are still too simplistic or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Kenny Chen , Ryan Nemiroff , Brett T. Lopez

Autonomous driving systems are highly dependent on sensors like cameras, LiDAR, and inertial measurement units (IMU) to perceive the environment and estimate their motion. Among these sensors, perception-based sensors are not protected from…

In this paper, we argue that modern pre-integration methods for inertial measurement units (IMUs) are accurate enough to ignore the drift for short time intervals. This allows us to consider a simplified camera model, which in turn admits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Patrik Persson , Mårten Wadenbäck , Kalle Åström , Anders Heyden

This paper proposes a novel data-driven approach for inertial navigation, which learns to estimate trajectories of natural human motions just from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) in every smartphone. The key observation is that human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Hang Yan , Qi Shan , Yasutaka Furukawa

Modern inertial measurements units (IMUs) are small, cheap, energy efficient, and widely employed in smart devices and mobile robots. Exploiting inertial data for accurate and reliable pedestrian navigation supports is a key component for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Changhao Chen , Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Wei Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Inertial navigation systems (INS) are widely used in almost any operational environment, including aviation, marine, and land vehicles. Inertial measurements from accelerometers and gyroscopes allow the INS to estimate position, velocity,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Daniel Engelsman , Yair Stolero , Itzik Klein

The main contribution of this paper is a high frequency, low-complexity, on-board visual-inertial odometry system for quadrotor micro air vehicles. The system consists of an extended Kalman filter (EKF) based state estimation algorithm that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Dinuka Abeywardena , Shoudong Huang , Ben Barnes , Gamini Dissanayake , Sarath Kodagoda