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Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) are algorithms that fuse inertial measurements of angular velocity and specific acceleration with supplementary sensors including GNSS and magnetometers to estimate the position, velocity and attitude, or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Pieter van Goor , Tarek Hamel , Robert Mahony

Although Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide a general solution for bike tracking outdoors, there still exist complex riding environments where only inertial navigation systems work, such as urban canyons. Despite decades of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Feng Liu , Kejia Li , Zhiwei Yang , Chunwei Yang , Qun Li , Guobin Wu , Qiang Ni , Ruipeng Gao

The paper discusses the increasing use of hybridized sensor information for GNSS-based localization and navigation, including the use of 3D map-aided GNSS positioning and terrestrial systems based on different geometric measurement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Paul Schwarzbach , Albrecht Michler , Oliver Michler

Inertial navigation systems (INS) are widely used in both manned and autonomous platforms. One of the most critical tasks prior to their operation is to accurately determine their initial alignment while stationary, as it forms the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Daniel Engelsman , Itzik Klein

Modern smartphones have all the sensing capabilities required for accurate and robust navigation and tracking. In specific environments some data streams may be absent, less reliable, or flat out wrong. In particular, the GNSS signal can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Santiago Cortés Reina , Yuxin Hou , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

We show how to assign, on two intersecting null hypersurfaces, initial data for the Einstein-Vlasov system in harmonic coordinates. As all the components of the metric appear in each component of the stress-energy tensor, the hierarchical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-03 Tadmon Calvin

While Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is often used to provide global positioning if available, its intermittency and/or inaccuracy calls for fusion with other sensors. In this paper, we develop a novel GNSS-Visual-Inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jun Hu , Xiaoming Lang , Feng Zhang , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

We present a statistical framework for estimating global navigation satellite system (GNSS) non-ionospheric differential time delay bias. The biases are estimated by examining differences of measured line integrated electron densities (TEC)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-13 Juha Vierinen , Anthea J. Coster , William C. Rideout , Philip J. Erickson , Johannes Norberg

Network-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) underpin critical infrastructure and autonomous systems, yet typically rely on centralized processing hubs that limit scalability, resilience, and latency. Here we report a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Xue Xian Zheng , Xing Liu , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Robust aiding of inertial navigation systems in GNSS-denied environments is critical for the removal of accumulated navigation error caused by the drift and bias inherent in inertial sensors. One way to perform such an aiding uses matching…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Xuezhi Wang , Christopher Gilliam , Allison Kealy , John Close , Bill Moran

Sparse-view scene reconstruction often faces significant challenges due to the constraints imposed by limited observational data. These limitations result in incomplete information, leading to suboptimal reconstructions using existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiangyu Sun , Runnan Chen , Mingming Gong , Dong Xu , Tongliang Liu

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

By utilizing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) position and velocity measurements, the fusion between the GNSS and the inertial navigation system provides accurate and robust navigation information. When considering land…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nitzan Dahan , Itzik Klein

Many Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) use Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) position as the primary measurement to drive filter performance and bound error growth. However, commercial-grade GNSS receivers introduce unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Giulio Delama , Martin Scheiber , Yixiao Ge , Tarek Hamel , Stephan Weiss , Robert Mahony

Baseline generation for tracking applications is a difficult task when working with real world radar data. Data sparsity usually only allows an indirect way of estimating the original tracks as most objects' centers are not represented in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Nicolas Scheiner , Stefan Haag , Nils Appenrodt , Bharanidhar Duraisamy , Jürgen Dickmann , Martin Fritzsche , Bernhard Sick

This article proposes an inertial navigation algorithm intended to lower the negative consequences of the absence of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals on the navigation of autonomous fixed wing low SWaP (Size, Weight, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Eduardo Gallo , Antonio Barrientos

To obtain a high-accuracy position with SINS(Strapdown Inertial Navigation System), initial alignment needs to determine initial attitude rapidly and accurately. High-accuracy grade IMU(Inertial Measurement Uint) can obtain the initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xiaokang Yang , Gongmin Yan , Hao Yang , Sihai Li

We propose a method to enhance 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)~\cite{Kerbl2023}, addressing challenges in initialization, optimization, and density control. Gaussian Splatting is an alternative for rendering realistic images while supporting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xingjun Wang , Lianlei Shan

This paper improves visual-inertial systems to boost the localization accuracy for low-cost rescue robots. When robots traverse on rugged terrain, the performance of pose estimation suffers from big noise on the measurements of the inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xiaoling Long , Qingwen Xu , Yijun Yuan , Zhenpeng He , Sören Schwertfeger

In this letter, we present a closed-form initialization method that recovers the full visual-inertial state without nonlinear optimization. Unlike previous approaches that rely on iterative solvers, our formulation yields analytical,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Samuel Cerezo , Seong Hun Lee , Javier Civera