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We aim to enable robots to visually localize a target person through the aid of an additional sensing modality -- the target person's 3D inertial measurements. The need for such technology may arise when a robot is to meet person in a crowd…

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The Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) technology have attracted a considerable importance recently because of its large number of solutions serving both military as well as civilian applications. This…

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Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) offers a lightweight and cost-effective solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, yet existing learning-based IO models often fail to generalize to UAVs due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuheng Qiu , Can Xu , Yutian Chen , Shibo Zhao , Junyi Geng , Sebastian Scherer

In order to make robots more useful in a variety of environments, they need to be highly portable so that they can be transported to wherever they are needed, and highly storable so that they can be stored when not in use. We propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hiroya Sato , Tasuku Makabe , Iori Yanokura , Naoya Yamaguchi , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

Navigating in off-road environments for wheeled mobile robots is challenging due to dynamic and rugged terrain. Traditional physics-based stability metrics, such as Static Stability Margin (SSM) or Zero Moment Point (ZMP) require knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Nathaniel Rose , Arif Ahmed , Emanuel Gutierrez-Cornejo , Parikshit Maini

Precise, consistent, and reliable positioning is crucial for a multitude of uses. In order to achieve high precision global positioning services, multi-sensor fusion techniques, such as the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)/Inertial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Bo Xu , Shoujian Zhang , Jingrong Wang , Jiancheng Li

We present a robust control and estimation framework for quadrotors operating in Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)-denied, non-inertial environments where inertial sensors such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) become unreliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Riming Xu , Obadah Wali , Yasmine Marani , Eric Feron

Motivated by the goal of achieving robust, drift-free pose estimation in long-term autonomous navigation, in this work we propose a methodology to fuse global positional information with visual and inertial measurements in a tightly-coupled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Giovanni Cioffi , Davide Scaramuzza

Small mobile robots are an important class of Search and Rescue Robots. Integrating all required components into such small robots is a difficult engineering task. Smartphones have already been made small, lightweight and cheap by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xiangyang Zhi , Qingwen Xu , Sören Schwertfeger

An inertial navigation system (INS) utilizes three orthogonal accelerometers and gyroscopes to determine platform position, velocity, and orientation. There are countless applications for INS, including robotics, autonomous platforms, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Zeev Yampolsky , Yair Stolero , Nitzan Pri-Hadash , Dan Solodar , Shira Massas , Itai Savin , Itzik Klein

Smartphones equipped with sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers offer valuable opportunities for physics education, allowing students to measure motion using their own devices. However, commonly used applications…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-03-06 Keita Nishioka , Yasuhiro Tanaka

Autonomous driving has spurred the development of sensor fusion techniques, which combine data from multiple sensors to improve system performance. In particular, localization system based on sensor fusion , such as Visual Simultaneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Xiaowen Tao , Pengxiang Meng , Bing Zhu , Jian Zhao

The joint detection of drivable areas and road anomalies is a crucial task for ground mobile robots. In recent years, many impressive semantic segmentation networks, which can be used for pixel-level drivable area and road anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Hengli Wang , Rui Fan , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the attitude of a rigid body, which is subject to high accelerations and equipped with inertial measurement unit (IMU) and sensors providing the body velocity (expressed in the reference frame…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Mehdi Benallegue , Abdelaziz Benallegue , Rafael Cisneros , Yacine Chitour

We present a method to improve the accuracy of a foot-mounted, zero-velocity-aided inertial navigation system (INS) by varying estimator parameters based on a real-time classification of motion type. We train a support vector machine (SVM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Brandon Wagstaff , Valentin Peretroukhin , Jonathan Kelly

Synchronisation of wireless inertial measurement units in human movement analysis is often achieved using event-based synchronisation techniques. However, these techniques lack precise event generation and accuracy. An inaccurate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Andreas Spilz , Michael Munz

Autism Spectrum Disorders are associated with atypical movements, of which stereotypical motor movements (SMMs) interfere with learning and social interaction. The automatic SMM detection using inertial measurement units (IMU) remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Nastaran Mohammadian Rad , Seyed Mostafa Kia , Calogero Zarbo , Twan van Laarhoven , Giuseppe Jurman , Paola Venuti , Elena Marchiori , Cesare Furlanello

Autonomous mobile robots are widely used for navigation, transportation, and inspection tasks indoors and outdoors. In practical situations of limited satellite signals or poor lighting conditions, navigation depends only on inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Gal Versano , Itzik Klein

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful representation of geometry and appearance for dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Through rapid, differentiable rasterization of 3D Gaussians, many 3DGS SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xulang Liu , Ning Tan

LiDAR-based 3D mapping suffers from cumulative drift causing global misalignment, particularly in GNSS-constrained environments. To address this, we propose a unified framework that fuses LiDAR, GNSS, and IMU data for high-resolution…