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This paper sets a new foundation for data-driven inertial navigation research, where the task is the estimation of positions and orientations of a moving subject from a sequence of IMU sensor measurements. More concretely, the paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Hang Yan , Sachini Herath , Yasutaka Furukawa

In this work, we propose an interoceptive-only state estimation system for a quadrotor with deep neural network processing, where the quadrotor dynamics is considered as a perceptive supplement of the inertial kinematics. To improve the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Kunyi Zhang , Chenxing Jiang , Jinghang Li , Sheng Yang , Teng Ma , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Autonomous robotic systems heavily rely on environment knowledge to safely navigate. For search & rescue, a flying robot requires robust real-time perception, enabled by complementary sensors. IMU data constrains acceleration and rotation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

The fusion of visual and inertial measurements is becoming more and more popular in the robotics community since both sources of information complement well each other. However, in order to perform this fusion, the biases of the Inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 David Zuñiga-Noël , Francisco-Angel Moreno , Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as driverless cars, have a growing demand for high-precision positioning and navigation. Nowadays, LiDAR inertial odometry becomes increasingly prevalent in robotics and autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chengwei Zhao , Kun Hu , Jie Xu , Lijun Zhao , Baiwen Han , Kaidi Wu , Maoshan Tian , Shenghai Yuan

This paper proposes a novel inertial-aided localization approach by fusing information from multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) and exteroceptive sensors. IMU is a low-cost motion sensor which provides measurements on angular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Ming Zhang , Yiming Chen , Xiangyu Xu , Mingyang Li

We propose Super Odometry, a high-precision multi-modal sensor fusion framework, providing a simple but effective way to fuse multiple sensors such as LiDAR, camera, and IMU sensors and achieve robust state estimation in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Shibo Zhao , Hengrui Zhang , Peng Wang , Lucas Nogueira , Sebastian Scherer

In this paper, we argue that modern pre-integration methods for inertial measurement units (IMUs) are accurate enough to ignore the drift for short time intervals. This allows us to consider a simplified camera model, which in turn admits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Patrik Persson , Mårten Wadenbäck , Kalle Åström , Anders Heyden

In estimating odometry accurately, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) is widely used owing to its high-rate measurements, which can be utilized to obtain motion information through IMU propagation. In this paper, we address the limitations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Gunhee Shin , Seungjae Lee , Jei Kong , Youngwoo Seo , Hyun Myung

Many smartphone applications use inertial measurement units (IMUs) to sense movement, but the use of these sensors for pedestrian localization can be challenging due to their noise characteristics. Recent data-driven inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Scott Sun , Dennis Melamed , Kris Kitani

This work demonstrates an airflow inertial based odometry system with multi-sensor data fusion, including thermal anemometer, IMU, ESC, and barometer. This goal is challenging because low-cost IMUs and barometers have significant bias, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ze Wang , Jingang Qu , Zhenyu Gao , Pascal Morin

In recent years, multiple Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems have grown in popularity due to their enhanced accuracy and stability from the increased field of view (FOV). However, integrating multiple LiDARs can be challenging,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Minwoo Jung , Sangwoo Jung , Ayoung Kim

Convolutional networks are successful, but they have recently been outperformed by new neural networks that are equivariant under rotations and translations. These new networks work better because they do not struggle with learning each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Philip Müller , Vladimir Golkov , Valentina Tomassini , Daniel Cremers

We investigate the optimization of neural networks on symmetric data, and compare the strategy of constraining the architecture to be equivariant to that of using data augmentation. Our analysis reveals that that the relative geometry of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Oskar Nordenfors , Fredrik Ohlsson , Axel Flinth

In the last decade, numerous supervised deep learning approaches requiring large amounts of labeled data have been proposed for visual-inertial odometry (VIO) and depth map estimation. To overcome the data limitation, self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yasin Almalioglu , Mehmet Turan , Alp Eren Sari , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Pedro P. B. de Gusmão , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Accurate odometry is a critical component in a robotic navigation stack, and subsequent modules such as planning and control often rely on an estimate of the robot's motion. Sensor-based odometry approaches should be robust across sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Meher V. R. Malladi , Tiziano Guadagnino , Luca Lobefaro , Cyrill Stachniss

Environments lacking geometric features (e.g., tunnels and long straight corridors) are challenging for LiDAR-based odometry algorithms because LiDAR point clouds degenerate in such environments. For wheeled robots, a wheel kinematic model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Taku Okawara , Kenji Koide , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Atsuhiko Banno , Kentaro Uno , Kazuya Yoshida

This paper addresses the problem of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) for rigid body systems evolving in three-dimensional space. We introduce a novel matrix Lie group structure, denoted SE_{3+n}(3), that unifies the pose, gravity, linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Mouaad Boughellaba , Abdelhamid Tayebi , James R. Forbes , Soulaimane Berkane

Involuntary motion during weight-bearing cone-beam computed tomography (CT) scans of the knee causes artifacts in the reconstructed volumes making them unusable for clinical diagnosis. Currently, image-based or marker-based methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Jennifer Maier , Marlies Nitschke , Jang-Hwan Choi , Garry Gold , Rebecca Fahrig , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Andreas Maier

Camera-IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) sensor fusion has been extensively studied in recent decades. Numerous observability analysis and fusion schemes for motion estimation with self-calibration have been presented. However, it has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jianzhu Huai , Yukai Lin , Yuan Zhuang , Charles Toth , Dong Chen