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Neural displacement priors (NDP) can reduce the drift in inertial odometry and provide uncertainty estimates that can be readily fused with off-the-shelf filters. However, they fail to generalize to different IMU sampling rates and…

Real-world geometry and 3D vision tasks are replete with challenging symmetries that defy tractable analytical expression. In this paper, we introduce Neural Isometries, an autoencoder framework which learns to map the observation space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Thomas W. Mitchel , Michael Taylor , Vincent Sitzmann

This paper presents a novel framework for estimating the position and orientation of flexible manipulators undergoing vertical motion using multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs), optimized and calibrated with ground truth data. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Amir Hossein Barjini , Jouni Mattila

Recently, the progress in the radar sensing technology consisting in the miniaturization of the packages and increase in measuring precision has drawn the interest of the robotics research community. Indeed, a crucial task enabling autonomy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jan Michalczyk

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a robust alternative to vision- and LiDAR-based odometry in challenging conditions such as low light, fog, featureless environments, or in adverse weather. However, many existing RIO approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Vlaho-Josip Štironja , Luka Petrović , Juraj Peršić , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

This letter proposes a new approach for Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) preintegration, a fundamental building block that can be leveraged in different optimization-based Inertial Navigation System (INS) localization solutions. Inspired by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Giulio Delama , Alessandro Fornasier , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

In this paper we propose a novel accurate method for dead-reckoning of wheeled vehicles based only on an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). In the context of intelligent vehicles, robust and accurate dead-reckoning based on the IMU may prove…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Martin Brossard , Axel Barrau , Silvère Bonnabel

This paper presents a novel end-to-end deep learning framework for real-time inertial attitude estimation using 6DoF IMU measurements. Inertial Measurement Units are widely used in various applications, including engineering and medical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Arman Asgharpoor Golroudbari , Mohammad Hossein Sabour

In recent years, deep learning techniques have shown great success in various tasks related to inverse problems, where a target quantity of interest can only be observed through indirect measurements by a forward operator. Common approaches…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Matthias Beckmann , Nick Heilenkötter

Inertial measurement unit (IMU) and odometer have been commonly-used sensors for autonomous land navigation in the global positioning system (GPS)-denied scenarios. This paper systematically proposes a versatile strategy for self-contained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Yuanxin Wu

Inertial odometry (IO) directly estimates the position of a carrier from inertial sensor measurements and serves as a core technology for the widespread deployment of consumer grade localization systems. While existing IO methods can…

Accurate and robust localization is a fundamental need for mobile agents. Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) algorithms exploit the information from camera and inertial sensors to estimate position and translation. Recent deep learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zheming Tu , Changhao Chen , Xianfei Pan , Ruochen Liu , Jiarui Cui , Jun Mao

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

IMUs are gaining significant importance in the field of hand gesture analysis, trajectory detection and kinematic functional study. An Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) consists of tri-axial accelerometers and gyroscopes which can together be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Karush Suri , Rinki Gupta

Inertial measurement units are commonly used to estimate the attitude of moving objects. Numerous nonlinear filter approaches have been proposed for solving the inherent sensor fusion problem. However, when a large range of different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Daniel Weber , Clemens Gühmann , Thomas Seel

Inertial odometry is an attractive solution to the problem of state estimation for agile quadrotor flight. It is inexpensive, lightweight, and it is not affected by perceptual degradation. However, only relying on the integration of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Giovanni Cioffi , Leonard Bauersfeld , Elia Kaufmann , Davide Scaramuzza

Freehand 3D ultrasound (US) has important clinical value due to its low cost and unrestricted field of view. Recently deep learning algorithms have removed its dependence on bulky and expensive external positioning devices. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Mingyuan Luo , Xin Yang , Hongzhang Wang , Liwei Du , Dong Ni

Combining Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) with visual and inertial sensors can give smooth pose estimation without drifting. The fusion system gradually degrades to Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) with the number of satellites…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Changwu Liu , Chen Jiang , Haowen Wang

Current approaches for visual-inertial odometry (VIO) are able to attain highly accurate state estimation via nonlinear optimization. However, real-time optimization quickly becomes infeasible as the trajectory grows over time, this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Christian Forster , Luca Carlone , Frank Dellaert , Davide Scaramuzza

Inertial Odometry (IO) enables real-time localization using only acceleration and angular velocity measurements from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), making it a promising solution for localization in consumer-grade applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shanshan Zhang , Liqin Wu , Wenying Cao , Siyue Wang , Tianshui Wen , Qi Zhang , Xuemin Hong , Ao Peng , Lingxiang Zheng , Yu Yang