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Humanoid robots have great potential for a wide range of applications, including industrial and domestic use, healthcare, and search and rescue missions. However, bipedal locomotion in different environments is still a challenge when it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Lasse Hohmeyer , Mihaela Popescu , Ivan Bergonzani , Dennis Mronga , Frank Kirchner

Reliable odometry for legged robots without cameras or LiDAR remains challenging due to IMU drift and noisy joint velocity sensing. This paper presents a purely proprioceptive state estimator that uses only IMU and motor measurements to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Minxing Sun , Yao Mao

High-frequency and accurate state estimation is crucial for biped robots. This paper presents a tightly-coupled LiDAR-Inertial-Kinematic Odometry (LIKO) for biped robot state estimation based on an iterated extended Kalman filter. Beyond…

Legged robots carry an IMU, but the inertial solution drifts because consumer-grade IMUs are noisy. However, the feet create intermittent contacts with the environment that can be used to mitigate that drift. This report develops a sequence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Frank Dellaert , Chiyun Noh , Varun Agrawal , Ayoung Kim

Autonomous mobile robot competitions judge based on a robot's ability to quickly and accurately navigate the game field. This means accurate localization is crucial for creating an autonomous competition robot. Two common localization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Ethan Kou , Acshi Haggenmiller

Tensegrity robots, characterized by a synergistic assembly of rigid rods and elastic cables, form robust structures that are resistant to impacts. However, this design introduces complexities in kinematics and dynamics, complicating control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Wenzhe Tong , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Jonathan Mi , Yicheng Jiang , Maani Ghaffari , Xiaonan Huang

A filter for inertial-based odometry is a recursive method used to estimate the pose from measurements of ego-motion and relative pose. Currently, there is no known filter that guarantees the computation of a globally optimal solution for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Xinghan Li , Haoying Li , Guangyang Zeng , Qingcheng Zeng , Xiaoqiang Ren , Chao Yang , Junfeng Wu

In this paper, we present a fast and decentralized state estimation framework for the control of legged locomotion. The nonlinear estimation of the floating base states is decentralized to an orientation estimation via Extended Kalman…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiarong Kang , Yi Wang , Xiaobin Xiong

Accurate state estimation plays a critical role in ensuring the robust control of humanoid robots, particularly in the context of learning-based control policies for legged robots. However, there is a notable gap in analytical research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zhicheng Wang , Wandi Wei , Ruiqi Yu , Jun Wu , Qiuguo Zhu

This paper deals with the problem of state estimation for a class of linear time-invariant systems with quadratic output measurements. An immersion-type approach is presented that transforms the system into a state-affine system by adding a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Dionysis Theodosis , Soulaimane Berkane , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, a distributed dual-quaternion multiplicative extended Kalman filter for the estimation of poses and velocities of individual satellites in a fleet of spacecraft is analyzed. The proposed algorithm uses both absolute and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Jonas Binz , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

Understanding human motion is of critical importance for health monitoring and control of assistive robots, yet many human kinematic variables cannot be directly or accurately measured by wearable sensors. In recent years, invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zenan Zhu , Seyed Mostafa Rezayat Sorkhabadi , Yan Gu , Wenlong Zhang

For robots with low rigidity, determining the robot's state based solely on kinematics is challenging. This is particularly crucial for a robot whose entire body is in contact with the environment, as accurate state estimation is essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kengo Iwao , Hikaru Arita , Kenji Tahara

This paper derives a contact-aided inertial navigation observer for a 3D bipedal robot using the theory of invariant observer design. Aided inertial navigation is fundamentally a nonlinear observer design problem; thus, current solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Ross Hartley , Maani Ghaffari Jadidi , Jessy W. Grizzle , Ryan M. Eustice

We propose a state estimation method that can accurately predict the robot's privileged states to push the limits of quadruped robots in executing advanced skills such as jumping in the wild. In particular, we present the State Estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Chen Yu , Yichu Yang , Tianlin Liu , Yangwei You , Mingliang Zhou , Diyun Xiang

A recursive state estimation procedure is derived for a linear time varying system with both parametric uncertainties and stochastic measurement droppings. This estimator has a similar form as that of the Kalman filter with intermittent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tong Zhou

State estimation is a fundamental requirement in robotics, where the accurate determination of a robot's state is essential for stable operation despite inherent process disturbances and sensor noise. Traditionally, this is achieved through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Phunyapa Suksomboon , Paulo Garcia

State estimation for legged robots remains challenging because legged odometry generally suffers from limited observability and therefore depends critically on measurement constraints to suppress drift. When exteroceptive sensors are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wanlei Li , Zichang Chen , Shilei Li , Xiaogang Xiong , Yunjiang Lou

This paper presents a new optimal filter namely past observation-based extended Kalman filter for the problem of localization of Internet-based mobile robot in which the control input and the feedback measurement suffer from communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Manh Duong Phung , Thi Thanh Van Nguyen , Thuan Hoang Tran , Quang Vinh Tran

This paper presents a novel approach for representing proprioceptive time-series data from quadruped robots as structured two-dimensional images, enabling the use of convolutional neural networks for learning locomotion-related tasks. The…