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This paper presents a new approach for 6DoF Direct LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (D-LIO) based on the simultaneous mapping of truncated distance fields on CPU. Such continuous representation (in the vicinity of the points) enables working with…

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This paper presents Elevator-LIO, a LiDAR-inertial odometry framework designed to achieve continuous robot localization during elevator travel, thereby supporting cross-floor robotic tasks. To address the state-estimation problem in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yifan Zhang , Yudong Huang , Yuchong Zhang , Changze Li , Haoran Liu , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

Generally, high-level features provide more geometrical information compared to point features, which can be exploited to further constrain motions. Planes are commonplace in man-made environments, offering an active means to reduce drift,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yidi Zhang , Fulin Tang , Zewen Xu , Yihong Wu , Pengju Ma

Existing LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) systems typically use sensor-specific or environment-dependent measurement covariances during state estimation, leading to laborious parameter tuning and suboptimal performance in challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xupeng Xie , Ruoyu Geng , Jun Ma , Boyu Zhou

Addressing the inherent low acquisition frequency limitation of 3D LiDAR to achieve high-frequency output has become a critical research focus in the LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) domain. To ensure real-time performance, frequency-enhanced…

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

Multi-sensor fusion of multi-modal measurements from commodity inertial, visual and LiDAR sensors to provide robust and accurate 6DOF pose estimation holds great potential in robotics and beyond. In this paper, building upon our prior work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xingxing Zuo , Yulin Yang , Patrick Geneva , Jiajun Lv , Yong Liu , Guoquan Huang , Marc Pollefeys

Existing LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) methods typically utilize the prior trajectory derived from the IMU integration to compensate for the motion distortion within LiDAR frames. However, discrepancies between the prior and true trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tianxiang Zhang , Xuanxuan Zhang , Wenlei Fan , Xin Xia , Huai Yu , Lin Wang , You Li

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-inertial odometry (LIO) enables accurate localization and mapping for autonomous navigation in various scenes. However, its performance remains sensitive to variations in spatial scale, which refers to…

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be an essential capability for intelligent vehicles and mobile robots. However, most of the current lidar SLAM approaches are based on the assumption of a static environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chenglong Qian , Zhaohong Xiang , Zhuoran Wu , Hongbin Sun

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

Real-time LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry and mapping is crucial for navigation and planning tasks in intelligent transportation systems. This study presents a pose-only bundle adjustment (PA) LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry (LVIO), named…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hailiang Tang , Tisheng Zhang , Liqiang Wang , Xin Ding , Man Yuan , Xiaoji Niu

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

In this paper, a LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) method that eliminates the influence of moving objects in dynamic driving scenarios is proposed. This method constructs binarized labels for 3D points of current sweep, and utilizes the label…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zikang Yuan , Xiaoxiang Wang , Jingying Wu , Junda Cheng , Xin Yang

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

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) plays a vital role in achieving accurate localization and mapping, especially in complex environments. However, the presence of LiDAR feature degeneracy poses a major challenge to reliable state estimation. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guodong Yao , Hao Wang , Qing Chang

Accurate, robust, and real-time LiDAR-based odometry (LO) is imperative for many applications like robot navigation, globally consistent 3D scene map reconstruction, or safe motion-planning. Though LiDAR sensor is known for its precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sk Aziz Ali , Djamila Aouada , Gerd Reis , Didier Stricker

High-frequency and accurate state estimation is crucial for biped robots. This paper presents a tightly-coupled LiDAR-Inertial-Kinematic Odometry (LIKO) for biped robot state estimation based on an iterated extended Kalman filter. Beyond…

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…