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Drones estimate their position and orientation with the help of various sensors. Their data streams, that differ with respect to the sampling rate and standard deviation, need to be fused to get an accurate position and orientation…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-07-21 Markus Pagitz

Accurate and continuous pedestrian positioning across outdoor-indoor environments remains challenging because GNSS, UWB, and inertial PDR are complementary yet individually fragile under signal blockage, multipath, and drift. This paper…

Service mobile robots are often required to avoid dynamic objects while performing their tasks, but they usually have only limited computational resources. To further advance the practical application of service robots in complex dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yushen He , Lei Zhao , Tianchen Deng , Zipeng Fang , Weidong Chen

Accurate and robust global localization is essential to robotics applications. We propose a novel global localization method that employs the map traversability as a hidden observation. The resulting map-corrected odometry localization is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Cheng Peng , David Weikersdorfer

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

LiDAR-based 3D mapping suffers from cumulative drift causing global misalignment, particularly in GNSS-constrained environments. To address this, we propose a unified framework that fuses LiDAR, GNSS, and IMU data for high-resolution…

We present the group fused Lasso for detection of multiple change-points shared by a set of co-occurring one-dimensional signals. Change-points are detected by approximating the original signals with a constraint on the multidimensional…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-23 Kevin Bleakley , Jean-Philippe Vert

We present ConFusion, an open-source package for online sensor fusion for robotic applications. ConFusion is a modular framework for fusing measurements from many heterogeneous sensors within a moving horizon estimator. ConFusion offers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Timothy Sandy , Lukas Stadelmann , Simon Kerscher , Jonas Buchli

An essential function for automated vehicle technologies is accurate localization. It is difficult, however, to achieve lane-level accuracy with low-cost Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers due to the biased noisy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Macheng Shen , Ding Zhao , Jing Sun

We propose a method for automated synchronization of vehicle sensors useful for the study of multi-modal driver behavior and for the design of advanced driver assistance systems. Multi-sensor decision fusion relies on synchronized data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Lex Fridman , Daniel E Brown , William Angell , Irman Abdić , Bryan Reimer , Hae Young Noh

Multi-modal sensor data fusion takes advantage of complementary or reinforcing information from each sensor and can boost overall performance in applications such as scene classification and target detection. This paper presents a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Hersh Vakharia , Xiaoxiao Du

Range-only (RO) localization involves determining the position of a mobile robot by measuring the distance to specific anchors. RO localization is challenging since the measurements are low-dimensional and a single range sensor does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Abhishek Goudar , Timothy D. Barfoot , Angela P. Schoellig

Registration of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images serves as a critical foundation for image fusion and visual navigation tasks. This task is particularly challenging because of their modal discrepancy,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Zixuan Sun , Shuaifeng Zhi , Ruize Li , Jingyuan Xia , Yongxiang Liu , Weidong Jiang

- Both Lidars and Radars are sensors for obstacle detection. While Lidars are very accurate on obstacles positions and less accurate on their velocities, Radars are more precise on obstacles velocities and less precise on their positions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Hatem Hajri , Mohamed-Cherif Rahal

Fault detection and diagnosis are critical for the optimal and safe operation of industrial processes. The correlations among sensors often display non-Euclidean structures where graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used therein.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Bibek Aryal , Gift Modekwe , Qiugang Lu

In this paper, we present an efficient pedestrian detection system, designed by fusion of multiple deep neural network (DNN) systems. Pedestrian candidates are first generated by a single shot convolutional multi-box detector at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Xianzhi Du , Mostafa El-Khamy , Vlad I. Morariu , Jungwon Lee , Larry Davis

There is an increasing popularity in exploiting modern vehicles as mobile sensors to obtain important road information such as potholes, black ice and road profile. Availability of such information has been identified as a key enabler for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Mohammad R. Hajidavalloo , Zhaojian Li , Xin Xia , Ali Louati , Minghui Zheng , Weichao Zhuang

Event cameras, when combined with inertial sensors, show significant potential for motion estimation in challenging scenarios, such as high-speed maneuvers and low-light environments. There are many methods for producing such estimations,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zhixiang Wang , Xudong Li , Yizhai Zhang , Fan Zhang , Panfeng Huang

This paper presents a novel statistical information fusion method to integrate multiple-view sensor data in multi-object tracking applications. The proposed method overcomes the drawbacks of the commonly used Generalized Covariance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Xiaoying Wang , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Amirali K. Gostar , Tharindu Rathnayake , Benlian Xu , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

Radars, due to their robustness to adverse weather conditions and ability to measure object motions, have served in autonomous driving and intelligent agents for years. However, Radar-based perception suffers from its unintuitive sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Liu Liu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Zhenhua Du , Li Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Kai Huo , Weidong Jiang