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As 6G networks are developed and defined, offloading of XR applications is emerging as one of the strong new use cases. The reduced 6G latency coupled with edge processing infrastructure will for the first time provide a realistic…

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Recent research in nonlinear filtering and signal processing has suggested an efficient derivative-free Extended Kalman filter (EKF) designed for discrete-time stochastic systems. Such approach, however, has failed to address the estimation…

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Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a staple for reliable state estimation on constrained and lightweight platforms due to its versatility and demonstrated performance. However, pertinent challenges regarding robust operation in dark,…

Wide field-of-view (FoV) LiDAR sensors provide dense geometry across large environments, but existing LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry (LIVO) systems generally rely on a single camera, limiting their ability to fully exploit LiDAR-derived…

Latent variable models have become instrumental in computational neuroscience for reasoning about neural computation. This has fostered the development of powerful offline algorithms for extracting latent neural trajectories from neural…

We present COIN-LIO, a LiDAR Inertial Odometry pipeline that tightly couples information from LiDAR intensity with geometry-based point cloud registration. The focus of our work is to improve the robustness of LiDAR-inertial odometry in…

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In many applications of biotechnology, measurements are available at different sampling rates, e.g., due to online sensors and offline lab analysis. Offline measurements typically involve time delays that may be unknown a priori due to the…

Radar-based odometry is a popular solution for ego-motion estimation in conditions where other exteroceptive sensors may degrade, whether due to poor lighting or challenging weather conditions; however, scanning radars have the downside of…

To address the challenges of localization drift and perception-planning coupling in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in open-top scenarios (e.g., collapsed buildings, roofless mazes), this paper proposes EAROL, a novel framework…

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