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Existing LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) systems typically use sensor-specific or environment-dependent measurement covariances during state estimation, leading to laborious parameter tuning and suboptimal performance in challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xupeng Xie , Ruoyu Geng , Jun Ma , Boyu Zhou

Accurate and reliable sensor calibration is essential to fuse LiDAR and inertial measurements, which are usually available in robotic applications. In this paper, we propose a novel LiDAR-IMU calibration method within the continuous-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Jiajun Lv , Xingxing Zuo , Kewei Hu , Jinhong Xu , Guoquan Huang , Yong Liu

The mobile robot relies on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) to provide autonomous navigation and task execution in complex and unknown environments. However, it is hard to develop a dedicated algorithm for mobile robots due to…

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

We present a solution to the problem of spatio-temporal calibration for event cameras mounted on an onmi-directional vehicle. Different from traditional methods that typically determine the camera's pose with respect to the vehicle's body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xiao Li , Yi Zhou , Ruibin Guo , Xin Peng , Zongtan Zhou , Huimin Lu

Despite having achieved real-time performance in mesh construction, most of the current LiDAR odometry and meshing methods may struggle to deal with complex scenes due to relying on explicit meshing schemes. They are usually sensitive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yanjin Zhu , Xin Zheng , Jianke Zhu

The 3D Average Precision (3D AP) relies on the intersection over union between predictions and ground truth objects. However, camera-only detectors have limited depth accuracy, which may cause otherwise reasonable predictions that suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Wei-Chih Hung , Vincent Casser , Henrik Kretzschmar , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Dragomir Anguelov

LiDAR odometry plays an important role in self-localization and mapping for autonomous navigation, which is usually treated as a scan registration problem. Although having achieved promising performance on KITTI odometry benchmark, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Xin Zheng , Jianke Zhu

LiDAR-camera 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) combines rich visual semantics with accurate depth cues to improve trajectory consistency and tracking reliability. In practice, however, LiDAR and cameras operate at different sampling rates. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xian Wu , Yitao Wu , Xiaoyu Li , Zijia Li , Lijun Zhao , Lining Sun

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is widely used for accurate state estimation and mapping which is an essential requirement for autonomous robots. Conventional LIO methods typically rely on formulating constraints from the geometric structure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nikhil Khedekar , Kostas Alexis

In this paper, we present INertial Lidar Localisation Autocalibration And MApping (IN2LAAMA): an offline probabilistic framework for localisation, mapping, and extrinsic calibration based on a 3D-lidar and a 6-DoF-IMU. Most of today's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Cedric Le Gentil , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Shoudong Huang

To achieve accurate and robust pose estimation in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) task, multi-sensor fusion is proven to be an effective solution and thus provides great potential in robotic applications. This paper proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Chunran Zheng , Qingyan Zhu , Wei Xu , Xiyuan Liu , Qizhi Guo , Fu Zhang

Owing to the capability for reliable and all-weather long-range sensing, the fusion of LiDAR and Radar has been widely applied to autonomous vehicles for robust perception. In practical operation, well manually calibrated extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Weimin Wang , Yu Du , Ting Yang , Yu Liu

Adaptive optics laser guide star systems perform atmospheric correction of stellar wavefronts in two parts: stellar tip-tilt and high-spatial-order laser-correction. The requirement of a sufficiently bright guide star in the field-of-view…

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This paper presents a lightweight LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry system optimized for resource-constrained platforms. It integrates a degeneration-aware adaptive visual frame selector into error-state iterated Kalman filter (ESIKF) with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Bingyang Zhou , Chunran Zheng , Ziming Wang , Fangcheng Zhu , Yixi Cai , Fu Zhang

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be an essential capability for intelligent vehicles and mobile robots. However, most of the current lidar SLAM approaches are based on the assumption of a static environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chenglong Qian , Zhaohong Xiang , Zhuoran Wu , Hongbin Sun

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

Monocular 3D lane detection remains challenging due to depth ambiguity, occlusion, and temporal instability across frames. Anchor-based approaches such as Anchor3DLane have demonstrated strong performance by regressing continuous 3D lane…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 D. Shainu Suhas , G. Rahul , K. Muni

As an important technology in 3D mapping, autonomous driving, and robot navigation, LiDAR odometry is still a challenging task. Appropriate data structure and unsupervised deep learning are the keys to achieve an easy adjusted LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Deyu Yin , Qian Zhang , Jingbin Liu , Xinlian Liang , Yunsheng Wang , Jyri Maanpää , Hao Ma , Juha Hyyppä , Ruizhi Chen

As object detectors rapidly improve, attention has expanded past image-only networks to include a range of 3D and multimodal frameworks, especially ones that incorporate LiDAR. However, due to cost, logistics, and even some safety…

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