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Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors have become a de-facto sensor for many robot state estimation tasks, spurring development of many LiDAR Odometry (LO) methods in recent years. While some smoothing-based LO methods have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Easton R. Potokar , Taylor Pool , Daniel McGann , Michael Kaess

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

The accuracy of the initial state, including initial velocity, gravity direction, and IMU biases, is critical for the initialization of LiDAR-inertial SLAM systems. Inaccurate initial values can reduce initialization speed or lead to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jie Xu , Yongxin Ma , Yixuan Li , Xuanxuan Zhang , Jun Zhou , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

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 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 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

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

Scan undistortion is a key module for LiDAR odometry in high dynamic environment with high rotation and translation speed. The existing line of studies mostly focuses on one pass undistortion, which means undistortion for each point is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Keke Liu , Hao Ma , Zemin Wang

Inertial odometry is an attractive solution to the problem of state estimation for agile quadrotor flight. It is inexpensive, lightweight, and it is not affected by perceptual degradation. However, only relying on the integration of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Giovanni Cioffi , Leonard Bauersfeld , Elia Kaufmann , Davide Scaramuzza

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

State estimation is a crucial component for the successful implementation of robotic systems, relying on sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, and IMUs. However, in real-world scenarios, the performance of these sensors is degraded by challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Jui-Te Huang , Ruoyang Xu , Akshay Hinduja , Michael Kaess

Multi-modal sensor integration has become a crucial prerequisite for the real-world navigation systems. Recent studies have reported successful deployment of such system in many fields. However, it is still challenging for navigation tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Yusheng Wang , Yidong Lou , Weiwei Song , Bing Zhan , Feihuang Xia , Qigeng Duan

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors have become the sensor of choice for many robotic state estimation tasks. Because of this, in recent years there has been significant work done to fine the most accurate method to perform state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Easton Potokar , Michael Kaess

Reliable robot pose estimation is a key building block of many robot autonomy pipelines, with LiDAR localization being an active research domain. In this work, a versatile self-supervised LiDAR odometry estimation method is presented, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Julian Nubert , Shehryar Khattak , Marco Hutter

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

As a key technology for autonomous navigation and positioning in mobile robots, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) odometry is widely used in autonomous driving applications. The Iterative Closest Point (ICP)-based methods have become the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qifeng Wang , Weigang Li , Lei Nie , Xin Xu , Wenping Liu , Zhe Xu

LiDAR odometry can achieve accurate vehicle pose estimation for short driving range or in small-scale environments, but for long driving range or in large-scale environments, the accuracy deteriorates as a result of cumulative estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Lizhou Liao , Chunyun Fu , Binbin Feng , Tian Su

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…

In safety-critical scenarios, the protection level of the autonomous navigation system is crucial for enabling mobile robots to perform safe tasks. However, existing studies on probabilistic navigation systems for robots usually perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yueqi Zhu , Yan Pan , Chufan Rui , Jiasheng Luo , Shihua Li , Bo Zhou

This paper presents a LiDAR odometry estimation framework called Generalized LOAM. Our proposed method is generalized in that it can seamlessly fuse various local geometric shapes around points to improve the position estimation accuracy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Kohei Honda , Kenji Koide , Masashi Yokozuka , Shuji Oishi , Atsuhiko Banno