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In this paper, we propose a probabilistic continuous-time visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for rolling shutter cameras. The continuous-time trajectory formulation naturally facilitates the fusion of asynchronized high-frequency IMU data and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xiaolei Lang , Jiajun Lv , Jianxin Huang , Yukai Ma , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

This letter presents an accurate and robust Lidar Inertial Odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR scans with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterative error state Kalman filter for robust and fast localization. To achieve robust correspondence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xingyu Ji , Shenghai Yuan , Pengyu Yin , Lihua Xie

While feature association to a global map has significant benefits, to keep the computations from growing exponentially, most lidar-based odometry and mapping methods opt to associate features with local maps at one voxel scale. Taking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Daniel Duberg , Patric Jensfelt , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Over the last few decades, numerous LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) algorithms have been developed, demonstrating satisfactory performance across diverse environments. Most of these algorithms have predominantly been validated in open outdoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Dongha Chung , Jinwhan Kim

In recent years there have been excellent results in Visual-Inertial Odometry techniques, which aim to compute the incremental motion of the sensor with high accuracy and robustness. However these approaches lack the capability to close…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Raul Mur-Artal , Juan D. Tardos

Reliable odometry is essential for mobile robots as they increasingly enter more challenging environments, which often contain little information to constrain point cloud registration, resulting in degraded LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO)…

We propose a multi-camera LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry framework, Multi-LVI-SAM, which fuses data from multiple fisheye cameras, LiDAR and inertial sensors for highly accurate and robust state estimation. To enable efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xinyu Zhang , Kai Huang , Junqiao Zhao , Zihan Yuan , Tiantian Feng

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely used for mobile robot localization, but its long-term accuracy degrades without global constraints. Incorporating ranging sensors such as ultra-wideband (UWB) can mitigate drift; however,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yu-An Liu , Li Zhang

In this paper, we present the Trifo Visual Inertial Odometry (Trifo-VIO), a tightly-coupled filtering-based stereo VIO system using both points and lines. Line features help improve system robustness in challenging scenarios when point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Feng Zheng , Grace Tsai , Zhe Zhang , Shaoshan Liu , Chen-Chi Chu , Hongbing Hu

LiDAR odometry is essential for many robotics applications, including 3D mapping, navigation, and simultaneous localization and mapping. LiDAR odometry systems are usually based on some form of point cloud registration to compute the…

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is typically implemented using an optimization-based approach, with the factor graph often being employed due to its capability to seamlessly integrate residuals from both LiDAR and IMU measurements.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Naoki Akai , Takumi Nakao

In this letter, we propose a robust, real-time tightly-coupled multi-sensor fusion framework, which fuses measurement from LiDAR, inertial sensor, and visual camera to achieve robust and accurate state estimation. Our proposed framework is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jiarong Lin , Chunran Zheng , Wei Xu , Fu Zhang

In robotic navigation, maintaining precise pose estimation and navigation in complex and dynamic environments is crucial. However, environmental challenges such as smoke, tunnels, and adverse weather can significantly degrade the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Chenglong Qian , Yang Xu , Xiufang Shi , Jiming Chen , Liang Li

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

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

Combining cameras and inertial measurement units (IMUs) has been proven effective in motion tracking, as these two sensing modalities offer complementary characteristics that are suitable for fusion. While most works focus on global-shutter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Yonggen Ling , Linchao Bao , Zequn Jie , Fengming Zhu , Ziyang Li , Shanmin Tang , Yongsheng Liu , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang

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

In this paper, we present a real-time photo-realistic SLAM method based on marrying Gaussian Splatting with LiDAR-Inertial-Camera SLAM. Most existing radiance-field-based SLAM systems mainly focus on bounded indoor environments, equipped…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xiaolei Lang , Laijian Li , Chenming Wu , Chen Zhao , Lina Liu , Yong Liu , Jiajun Lv , Xingxing Zuo

Robust and accurate navigation is critical for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially for those with stringent Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) constraints. However, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) systems still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jinwen Zhu , Xudong Zhao , Fangcheng Zhu , Jun Hu , Shi Jin , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

LiDAR odometry is the task of estimating the ego-motion of the sensor from sequential laser scans. This problem has been addressed by the community for more than two decades, and many effective solutions are available nowadays. Most of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Simone Ferrari , Luca Di Giammarino , Leonardo Brizi , Giorgio Grisetti