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Odometry estimation is crucial for every autonomous system requiring navigation in an unknown environment. In modern mobile robots, 3D LiDAR-inertial systems are often used for this task. By fusing LiDAR scans and IMU measurements, these…

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a staple for reliable state estimation on constrained and lightweight platforms due to its versatility and demonstrated performance. However, pertinent challenges regarding robust operation in dark,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Morten Nissov , Mohit Singh , Kostas Alexis

We present a novel tightly-coupled LiDAR-inertial odometry and mapping scheme for both solid-state and mechanical LiDARs. As frontend, a feature-based lightweight LiDAR odometry provides fast motion estimates for adaptive keyframe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Kailai Li , Meng Li , Uwe D. Hanebeck

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

Over the past decade, lidars have become a cornerstone of robotics state estimation and perception thanks to their ability to provide accurate geometric information about their surroundings in the form of 3D scans. Unfortunately, most of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Cedric Le Gentil , Raphael Falque , Teresa Vidal-Calleja

Odometry estimation using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and an inertial measurement unit (IMU), known as LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO), often suffers from performance degradation in degenerate environments, such as long corridors or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Seongjun Kim , Daehan Lee , Junwoo Hong , Sanghyun Park , Hyunyoung Jo , Soohee Han

Compact wearable mapping system (WMS) has gained significant attention due to their convenience in various applications. Specifically, it provides an efficient way to collect prior maps for 3D structure inspection and robot-based "last-mile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jianping Li , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Kun Cao , Lihua Xie

This paper addresses the challenge of Lidar-Inertial Odometry (LIO) in dynamic environments, where conventional methods often fail due to their static-world assumptions. Traditional LIO algorithms perform poorly when dynamic objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chen Zhiqiang , Le Gentil Cedric , Lin Fuling , Lu Minghao , Qiao Qiyuan , Xu Bowen , Qi Yuhua , Lu Peng

LiDAR Inertial Odometry (LIO) is a critical component for many mobile robots that need to navigate without relying on external positioning (e.g., GPS). Platforms that operate autonomously in different environments and with heterogeneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Rowan Border , Margarita Chli

We propose an accurate and robust multi-modal sensor fusion framework, MetroLoc, towards one of the most extreme scenarios, the large-scale metro vehicle localization and mapping. MetroLoc is built atop an IMU-centric state estimator that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yusheng Wang , Weiwei Song , Yi Zhang , Fei Huang , Zhiyong Tu , Yidong Lou

Traditional LiDAR odometry (LO) systems mainly leverage geometric information obtained from the traversed surroundings to register laser scans and estimate LiDAR ego-motion, while it may be unreliable in dynamic or unstructured…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Shuaixin Li , Bin Tian , Zhu Xiaozhou , Gui Jianjun , Yao Wen , Guangyun Li

To deal with the degeneration caused by the incomplete constraints of single sensor, multi-sensor fusion strategies especially in LiDAR-vision-inertial fusion area have attracted much interest from both the industry and the research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Bingqi Shen , Yuyin Chen , Fuzhang Han , Shuwei Dai , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

An accurate odometry is essential for legged-wheel robots operating in unstructured terrains such as bumpy roads and staircases. Existing methods often suffer from pose drift due to their ignorance of terrain geometry. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yizhe Liu , Han Zhang

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) is an active research area, as it enables accurate real-time state estimation in GPS-denied environments. Recent advances in map data structures and spatial indexing have significantly improved the efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Seungwon Choi , Dong-Gyu Park , Seo-Yeon Hwang , Tae-Wan Kim

To achieve accurate and robust pose estimation in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) task, multi-sensor fusion is proven to be an effective solution and thus provides great potential in robotic applications. This paper proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Chunran Zheng , Qingyan Zhu , Wei Xu , Xiyuan Liu , Qizhi Guo , Fu Zhang

This paper presents a tightly-coupled multi-sensor fusion algorithm termed LiDAR-inertial-camera fusion (LIC-Fusion), which efficiently fuses IMU measurements, sparse visual features, and extracted LiDAR points. In particular, the proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Xingxing Zuo , Patrick Geneva , Woosik Lee , Yong Liu , Guoquan Huang

Implementing dynamic locomotion behaviors on legged robots requires a high-quality state estimation module. Especially when the motion includes flight phases, state-of-the-art approaches fail to produce reliable estimation of the robot…

Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) offers a lightweight and cost-effective solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, yet existing learning-based IO models often fail to generalize to UAVs due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuheng Qiu , Can Xu , Yutian Chen , Shibo Zhao , Junyi Geng , Sebastian Scherer

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

Recent advancements in LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) have boosted a large amount of applications. However, traditional LIO systems tend to focus more on localization rather than mapping, with maps consisting mostly of sparse geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Zhong Wang , Lele Ren , Yue Wen , Hesheng Wang