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The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is a widely adopted method for sensor fusion in navigation applications. A crucial aspect of the EKF is the online determination of the process noise covariance matrix reflecting the model uncertainty. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nadav Cohen , Itzik Klein

This letter proposes a reactive navigation strategy for recovering the altitude, translational velocity and orientation of Micro Aerial Vehicles. The main contribution lies in the direct and tight fusion of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Shangkun Zhong , Pakpong Chirarattananon

In many physical applications, the system's state varies with spatial variables as well as time. The state of such systems is modelled by partial differential equations and evolves on an infinite-dimensional space. Systems modelled by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Sepideh Afshar , Fabian Germ , Kirsten A. Morris

Observers for systems with Lie group symmetries are an active area of research that is seeing significant impact in a number of practical domains, including aerospace, robotics, and mechatronics. This paper builds on the theory of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Hiya Gada , Pieter van Goor , Ravi Banavar , Robert Mahony

Autonomous platforms require accurate positioning to complete their tasks. To this end, a Kalman filter-based algorithms, such as the extended Kalman filter or invariant Kalman filter, utilizing inertial and external sensor fusion are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Barak Diker , Itzik Klein

Inertial motion capture systems widely use low-cost IMUs to obtain the orientation of human body segments, but these sensors alone are unable to estimate link positions. Therefore, this research used a SLAM method in conjunction with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Mohammad Mahdi Azarbeik , Hamidreza Razavi , Kaveh Merat , Hassan Salarieh

Localization in indoor environments is a technique which estimates the robot's pose by fusing data from onboard motion sensors with readings of the environment, in our case obtained by scan matching point clouds captured by a low-cost…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Martin Barczyk , Silvère Bonnabel , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

Accurate estimation of noise parameters is critical for optimal filter performance, especially in systems where true noise parameter values are unknown or time-varying. This article presents a quaternion left-invariant extended Kalman…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Yash Pandey , Rahul Bhattacharyya , Yatindra Nath Singh

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) is the problem of estimating a robot's trajectory by combining information from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a camera, and is of great interest to the robotics community. This paper develops a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

A filter for inertial-based odometry is a recursive method used to estimate the pose from measurements of ego-motion and relative pose. Currently, there is no known filter that guarantees the computation of a globally optimal solution for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Xinghan Li , Haoying Li , Guangyang Zeng , Qingcheng Zeng , Xiaoqiang Ren , Chao Yang , Junfeng Wu

This article examines state estimation in discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems with finite-dimensional states and infinite-dimensional measurements, motivated by real-world applications such as vision-based localization and tracking.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Maxwell M. Varley , Timothy L. Molloy , Girish N. Nair

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is an efficient algorithm for many data assimilation problems. In certain circumstances, however, divergence of the EnKF might be spotted. In previous studies, the authors proposed an…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Xiaodong Luo , Ibrahim Hoteit

Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (VSLAM) is a key enabling technology for small embedded robotic systems such as aerial vehicles. Recent advances in equivariant filter and observer design offer the potential of a new generation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony , Tarek Hamel , Jochen Trumpf

This study presents an innovative hybrid Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that is resilient to environmental challenges and capable of dynamically assessing sensor reliability. Built upon a loosely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Ufuk Asil , Efendi Nasibov

In this paper, we investigate the convergence and consistency properties of an Invariant-Extended Kalman Filter (RI-EKF) based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm. Basic convergence properties of this algorithm are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Teng Zhang , Kanzhi Wu , Jingwei Song , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

This work deals with error models for trident quaternion framework proposed in the companion paper (Part I) and further uses them to investigate the odometer-aided static/in-motion inertial navigation attitude alignment for land vehicles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Wei Ouyang , Yuanxin Wu

In this paper, we focus on developing an Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) for extended pose estimation for a noisy system with state equality constraints. We treat those constraints as noise-free pseudo-measurements. To this aim, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Sven Goffin , Silvère Bonnabel , Olivier Brüls , Pierre Sacré

Contemporary data assimilation often involves more than a million prediction variables. Ensemble Kalman filters (EnKF) have been developed by geoscientists. They are successful indispensable tools in science and engineering, because they…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Andrew J. Majda , Xin T. Tong

One of core advantages of the SE2(3) Lie group framework for navigation modeling lies in the autonomy of error propagation. Current research on Lie group based extended Kalman filters has demonstrated that error propagation autonomy holds…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jiarui Cui , Maosong Wang , Wenqi Wu , Peiqi Li , Xianfei Pan

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a widely used methodology for state estimation in partial, noisily observed dynamical systems, and for parameter estimation in inverse problems. Despite its widespread use in the geophysical sciences,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Claudia Schillings , Andrew M. Stuart