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Localization in indoor environments is essential to further support automation in a wide array of scenarios. Moreover, direction-of-arrival knowledge is essential to supporting high speed millimeter-wave (mmWave) links in indoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Letizia Moro , Hani Mehrpouyan

To address the need for high-precision localization of climbing robots in complex high-altitude environments, this paper proposes a multi-sensor fusion system that overcomes the limitations of single-sensor approaches. Firstly, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shuning Zhang , Zhanchen Zhu , Xiangyu Chen , Yunheng Wang , Xu Jiang , Peibo Duan , Renjing Xu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) show great promise in the realm of 6th generation (6G) wireless systems, particularly in the areas of localization and communication. Their cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency enable the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Han Yan , Hua Chen , Wei Liu , Songjie Yang , Gang Wang , Chau Yuen

This paper addresses the problem of accurate localization for quadrupedal robots operating in narrow tunnel-like environments. Due to the long and homogeneous characteristics of such scenarios, LiDAR measurements often provide weak…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yujian Qiu , Yuqiu Mu , Wen Yang , Hao Zhu

In this paper, we develop a system for the low-cost indoor localization and tracking problem using radio signal strength indicator, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and magnetometer sensors. We develop a novel and simplified probabilistic…

Relative positioning between multiple mobile users is essential for many applications, such as search and rescue in disaster areas or human social interaction. Inertial-measurement unit (IMU) is promising to determine the change of position…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Ran Liu , Chau Yuen , Tri-Nhut Do , Dewei Jiao , Xiang Liu , U-Xuan Tan

Indoor localization systems that are accurate and robust with respect to propagation channel conditions are still a technical challenge today. In particular, for systems based on range measurements from radio signals, non-line-of-sight…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Paul Meissner , Erik Leitinger , Markus Fröhle , Klaus Witrisal

Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) traditionally rely on odometry and building infrastructures like WiFi, often supplemented by building floor plans for increased accuracy. However, the limitation of floor plans in terms of availability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zhaoguang Yi , Xiangyu Wen , Qiyue Xia , Peize Li , Francisco Zampella , Firas Alsehly , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

In this paper, we propose a fast extrinsic calibration method for fusing multiple inertial measurement units (MIMU) to improve visual-inertial odometry (VIO) localization accuracy. Currently, data fusion algorithms for MIMU highly depend on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Youwei Yu , Yanqing Liu , Fengjie Fu , Sihan He , Dongchen Zhu , Lei Wang , Xiaolin Zhang , Jiamao Li

We present Acoustic Inertial Measurement (AIM), a one-of-a-kind technique for indoor drone localization and tracking. Indoor drone localization and tracking are arguably a crucial, yet unsolved challenge: in GPS-denied environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yimiao Sun , Weiguo Wang , Luca Mottola , Ruijin Wang , Yuan He

The combination of ultrawideband (UWB) radios and inertial measurement units (IMU) can provide accurate positioning. To ensure reliable communication, the radios are generally mounted at the extremities of a mobile system whereas the IMUs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Abhishek Goudar

As a novel way of presenting information, augmented reality (AR) enables people to interact with the physical world in a direct and intuitive way. While there are some mobile AR products implemented with specific hardware at a high cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Songlin Hou , Fangzhou Lin , Yunmei Huang , Zhe Peng , Bin Xiao

Driven by applications like Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), driver-less cars, etc, localization solution has become an active research topic in the past decade. In recent years, Ultra Wideband (UWB) emerged as a promising technology because…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Jiaxin Li , Yingcai Bi , Kun Li , Kangli Wang , Feng Lin , Ben M. Chen

Foot-mounted inertial positioning (FMIP) can face problems of inertial drifts and unknown initial states in real applications, which renders the estimated trajectories inaccurate and not obtained in a well defined coordinate system for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-05 Yang Gu , Caifa Zhou , Andreas Wieser , Zhimin Zhou

Recent studies confirm the applicability of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based systems for human motion analysis. Notwithstanding, high-end IMU-based commercial solutions are yet too expensive and complex to democratize their use among a…

We present a robust and precise localization system that achieves centimeter-level localization accuracy in disparate city scenes. Our system adaptively uses information from complementary sensors such as GNSS, LiDAR, and IMU to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Guowei Wan , Xiaolong Yang , Renlan Cai , Hao Li , Hao Wang , Shiyu Song

Visual localization is a fundamental task that regresses the 6 Degree Of Freedom (6DoF) poses with image features in order to serve the high precision localization requests in many robotics applications. Degenerate conditions like motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yuchen Yang , Xudong Zhang , Shuang Gao , Jixiang Wan , Yishan Ping , Yuyue Liu , Jijunnan Li , Yandong Guo

We present a unique comparative analysis, and evaluation of vision, radio, and audio based localization algorithms. We create the first baseline for the aforementioned sensors using the recently published Lund University Vision, Radio, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Ilayda Yaman , Guoda Tian , Erik Tegler , Jens Gulin , Nikhil Challa , Fredrik Tufvesson , Ove Edfors , Kalle Astrom , Steffen Malkowsky , Liang Liu

Optimal MIMO detection has been one of the most challenging and computationally inefficient tasks in wireless systems. We show that the new analog computing techniques like Coherent Ising Machines (CIM) are promising candidates for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Abhishek Kumar Singh , Kyle Jamieson , Davide Venturelli , Peter McMahon

We present Acoustic Inertial Measurement (AIM), a one-of-a-kind technique for indoor drone localization and tracking. Indoor drone localization and tracking are arguably a crucial, yet unsolved challenge: in GPS-denied environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yimiao Sun , Weiguo Wang , Luca Mottola , Zhang Jia , Ruijin Wang , Yuan He