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Inertial sensors play a pivotal role in indoor localization, which in turn lays the foundation for pervasive personal applications. However, low-cost inertial sensors, as commonly found in smartphones, are plagued by bias and noise, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Changhao Chen , Xiaoxuan Lu , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

An algorithm based on Artificial Neural Networks is proposed in this paper to improve the accuracy of Inertial Navigation System (INS)/ Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) integrated navigation during the absence of GNSS signals. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Uche Onyekpe , Vasile Palade , Stratis Kanarachos

Visual-inertial sensors have a wide range of applications in robotics. However, good performance often requires different sophisticated motion routines to accurately calibrate camera intrinsics and inter-sensor extrinsics. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yunke Ao , Le Chen , Florian Tschopp , Michel Breyer , Andrei Cramariuc , Roland Siegwart

Imitation Learning (IL) is a powerful technique for intuitive robotic programming. However, ensuring the reliability of learned behaviors remains a challenge. In the context of reaching motions, a robot should consistently reach its goal,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari , Cosimo Della Santina , Jens Kober

Sensor fusion of a MEMS IMU with a magnetometer is a popular system design, because such 9-DoF (degrees of freedom) systems are capable of achieving drift-free 3D orientation tracking. However, these systems are often vulnerable to ambient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-14 Jacky C. K. Chow

This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm for orientation estimation using inertial sensors combined with magnetometer. The Lyapunov method in control theory is employed to prove the convergence of orientation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Liang Hu , Yujie Tang , Zhipeng Zhou , Wei Pan

Ankle exoskeletons have garnered considerable interest for their potential to enhance mobility and reduce fall risks, particularly among the aging population. The efficacy of these devices relies on accurate real-time prediction of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Silas Ruhrberg Estévez , Josée Mallah , Dominika Kazieczko , Chenyu Tang , Luigi G. Occhipinti

With the prevalence of wearable devices, inertial measurement unit (IMU) data has been utilized in monitoring and assessment of human mobility such as human activity recognition (HAR). Training deep neural network (DNN) models for these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Yujiao Hao , Boyu Wang , Rong Zheng

We present a generalized velocity model to improve localization when using an Inertial Navigation System (INS). This algorithm was applied to correct the velocity of a smart phone based indoor INS system to increase the accuracy by…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Rasika Lakmal Hettiarachchige Don , Jagath Samarabandu

Structure from motion algorithms have an inherent limitation that the reconstruction can only be determined up to the unknown scale factor. Modern mobile devices are equipped with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), which can be used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Janne Mustaniemi , Juho Kannala , Simo Särkkä , Jiri Matas , Janne Heikkilä

Pedestrian inertial localization is key for mobile and IoT services because it provides infrastructure-free positioning. Yet most learning-based methods depend on fixed sliding-window integration, struggle to adapt to diverse motion scales…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kaixuan Wu , Yuanzhuo Xu , Zejun Zhang , Weiping Zhu , Jian Zhang , Steve Drew , Xiaoguang Niu

The common approach to inertial sensor calibration for navigation purposes has been to model the stochastic error signals of individual sensors independently, whether as components of a single inertial measurement unit (IMU) in different…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-02 Haotian Xu , Stéphane Guerrier , Roberto Molinari , Mucyo Karemera

Inertial navigation systems for pedestrians are infrastructure-less and can achieve sub-meter accuracy in the short/medium period. However, when low-cost inertial measurement units (IMU) are employed for their implementation, they suffer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Low-cost inertial navigation sensors (INS) can be exploited for a reliable tracking solution for autonomous vehicles. However, position errors grow exponentially due to noises in the measurements. Several deep learning techniques have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Uche Onyekpe , Vasile Palade , Stratis Kanarachos , Alicja Szkolnik

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are interceptive modalities that provide ego-motion measurements independent of the environmental factors. They are widely adopted in various autonomous systems. Motivated by the limitations in processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Rooholla Khorrambakht , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Hamed Damirchi , Zhenghua Chen , Zhengguo Li

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) enable portable, multibody motion capture (MoCap) in diverse environments beyond the laboratory, making them a practical choice for diagnosing mobility disorders and supporting rehabilitation in clinical or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hassan Osman , Daan de Kanter , Jelle Boelens , Manon Kok , Ajay Seth

This paper proposes a novel inertial-aided localization approach by fusing information from multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) and exteroceptive sensors. IMU is a low-cost motion sensor which provides measurements on angular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Ming Zhang , Yiming Chen , Xiangyu Xu , Mingyang Li

A great surge in the development of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) excavates the potential for prosperity in many state-of-the-art technologies, e.g., autonomous ground vehicle navigation. Nevertheless, the GNSS is vulnerable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Yiran Luo , You Li , Jin Wang , Naser El-Sheimy

Modern smartphones have all the sensing capabilities required for accurate and robust navigation and tracking. In specific environments some data streams may be absent, less reliable, or flat out wrong. In particular, the GNSS signal can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Santiago Cortés Reina , Yuxin Hou , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

This paper proposes a unified mathematical framework for inertial measurement unit (IMU) preintegration in inertial-aided navigation system in different frames under different motion condition. The navigation state is precisely discretized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yarong Luo , Yang Liu , Chi Guo , Jingnan Liu