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LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is a foundational technique for autonomous systems, yet its deployment on resource-constrained platforms remains challenging due to computational and memory limitations. We propose Super-LIO, a robust LIO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Liansheng Wang , Xinke Zhang , Chenhui Li , Dongjiao He , Yihan Pan , Jianjun Yi

This paper presents a lightweight LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry system optimized for resource-constrained platforms. It integrates a degeneration-aware adaptive visual frame selector into error-state iterated Kalman filter (ESIKF) with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Bingyang Zhou , Chunran Zheng , Ziming Wang , Fangcheng Zhu , Yixi Cai , Fu Zhang

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is widely used for accurate state estimation and mapping which is an essential requirement for autonomous robots. Conventional LIO methods typically rely on formulating constraints from the geometric structure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nikhil Khedekar , Kostas Alexis

This paper proposes FAST-LIVO2: a fast, direct LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry framework to achieve accurate and robust state estimation in SLAM tasks and provide great potential in real-time, onboard robotic applications. FAST-LIVO2 fuses…

Integrating multiple LiDAR sensors can significantly enhance a robot's perception of the environment, enabling it to capture adequate measurements for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Indeed, solid-state LiDARs can bring in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

This paper presents a computationally efficient and robust LiDAR-inertial odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR feature points with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterated extended Kalman filter to allow robust navigation in fast-motion,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Wei Xu , Fu Zhang

We present COIN-LIO, a LiDAR Inertial Odometry pipeline that tightly couples information from LiDAR intensity with geometry-based point cloud registration. The focus of our work is to improve the robustness of LiDAR-inertial odometry in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Patrick Pfreundschuh , Helen Oleynikova , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Olov Andersson

This paper presents a fast lidar-inertial odometry (LIO) that is robust to aggressive motion. To achieve robust tracking in aggressive motion scenes, we exploit the continuous scanning property of lidar to adaptively divide the full scan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jun Liu , Yunzhou Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhao , Zhengnan He

We propose a framework for tightly-coupled lidar-visual-inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping, LVI-SAM, that achieves real-time state estimation and map-building with high accuracy and robustness. LVI-SAM is built atop a factor graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

Reliable odometry is essential for mobile robots as they increasingly enter more challenging environments, which often contain little information to constrain point cloud registration, resulting in degraded LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO)…

Accurate, infrastructure-less sensor systems for motion tracking are essential for mobile robotics and augmented reality (AR) applications. The most popular state-of-the-art visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems, however, are too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO), which fuses complementary information of a LiDAR and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), is an attractive solution for state estimation. In LIO, both pose and velocity are regarded as state variables that need…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zikang Yuan , Fengtian Lang , Tianle Xu , Xin Yang

We have proposed, to the best of our knowledge, the first-of-its-kind LiDAR-Inertial-Visual-Fused simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system with a strong place recognition capacity. Our proposed SLAM system is consist of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Kangcheng Liu

In robotic navigation, maintaining precise pose estimation and navigation in complex and dynamic environments is crucial. However, environmental challenges such as smoke, tunnels, and adverse weather can significantly degrade the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Chenglong Qian , Yang Xu , Xiufang Shi , Jiming Chen , Liang Li

This letter presents an accurate and robust Lidar Inertial Odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR scans with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterative error state Kalman filter for robust and fast localization. To achieve robust correspondence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xingyu Ji , Shenghai Yuan , Pengyu Yin , Lihua Xie

State estimation in complex illumination environments based on conventional visual-inertial odometry is a challenging task due to the severe visual degradation of the visual camera. The thermal infrared camera is capable of all-day time and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yu Wang , Haoyao Chen , Yufeng Liu , Shiwu Zhang

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and Odometry are important systems for estimating the position of mobile devices, such as robots and cars, utilizing one or more sensors. Particularly in camera-based SLAM or Odometry,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sanghyun Park , Soohee Han

In this paper, we propose an efficient continuous-time LiDAR-Inertial-Camera Odometry, utilizing non-uniform B-splines to tightly couple measurements from the LiDAR, IMU, and camera. In contrast to uniform B-spline-based continuous-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiaolei Lang , Chao Chen , Kai Tang , Yukai Ma , Jiajun Lv , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

To enhance localization accuracy in urban environments, an innovative LiDAR-Visual-Inertial odometry, named HDA-LVIO, is proposed by employing hybrid data association. The proposed HDA_LVIO system can be divided into two subsystems: the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jian Shi , Wei Wang , Mingyang Qi , Xin Li , Ye Yan

In this paper, we present the Trifo Visual Inertial Odometry (Trifo-VIO), a tightly-coupled filtering-based stereo VIO system using both points and lines. Line features help improve system robustness in challenging scenarios when point…

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