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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

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are interceptive modalities that provide ego-motion measurements independent of the environmental factors. They are widely adopted in various autonomous systems. Motivated by the limitations in processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Rooholla Khorrambakht , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Hamed Damirchi , Zhenghua Chen , Zhengguo Li

Inertial odometry (IO) using strap-down inertial measurement units (IMUs) is critical in many robotic applications where precise orientation and position tracking are essential. Prior kinematic motion model-based IO methods often use a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yuheng Qiu , Chen Wang , Can Xu , Yutian Chen , Xunfei Zhou , Youjie Xia , Sebastian Scherer

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

MEMS Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) as ubiquitous proprioceptive motion measurement devices are available on various everyday gadgets and robotic platforms. Nevertheless, the direct inference of geometrical transformations or odometry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 R. Khorrambakht , H. Damirchi , H. D. Taghirad

Inertial Odometry (IO) has gained attention in quadrotor applications due to its sole reliance on inertial measurement units (IMUs), attributed to its lightweight design, low cost, and robust performance across diverse environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiahao Cui , Feng Yu , Linzuo Zhang , Yu Hu , Danping Zou

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…

Modern inertial measurements units (IMUs) are small, cheap, energy efficient, and widely employed in smart devices and mobile robots. Exploiting inertial data for accurate and reliable pedestrian navigation supports is a key component for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Changhao Chen , Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Wei Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Inertial odometry (IO) is a widely used approach for localization on mobile devices; however, obtaining a lightweight IO model that also achieves high accuracy remains challenging. To address this issue, we propose TinyIO, a lightweight IO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shanshan Zhang , Siyue Wang , Mengzi Chen , Mengzhe Wang , Liqin Wu , Qi Zhang , Lingxiang Zheng

This paper presents a novel method for visual-inertial odometry. The method is based on an information fusion framework employing low-cost IMU sensors and the monocular camera in a standard smartphone. We formulate a sequential inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Arno Solin , Santiago Cortes , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

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

Inertial odometry (IO) leverages inertial measurement unit (IMU) signals for cost-effective localization. However, high IMU sampling rates introduce substantial redundancy that impedes IO's ability to attend to salient components, thereby…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shanshan Zhang , Qi Zhang , Siyue Wang , Liqin Wu , Tianshui Wen , Ziheng Zhou , Ao Peng , Xuemin Hong , Lingxiang Zheng , Yu Yang

We propose a framework for tightly-coupled lidar inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping, LIO-SAM, that achieves highly accurate, real-time mobile robot trajectory estimation and map-building. LIO-SAM formulates lidar-inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot , Drew Meyers , Wei Wang , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) has long been a dream for stable and reliable motion estimation, especially in indoor environments where GPS strength limits. In this paper, we propose a novel method for position and orientation estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yingying Wang , Hu Cheng , Max Q. H. Meng

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) utilizes an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to overcome the limitations of Visual Odometry (VO). However, the VIO for vehicles in large-scale outdoor environments still has some difficulties in estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Chang-Ryeol Lee , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Inertial navigation systems for pedestrians are infrastructure-less and can achieve sub-meter accuracy in the short/medium period. However, when low-cost inertial measurement units (IMU) are employed for their implementation, they suffer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

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

Advances in micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) techniques enable inertial measurements units (IMUs) to be small, cheap, energy efficient, and widely used in smartphones, robots, and drones. Exploiting inertial data for accurate and reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Changhao Chen , Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Wei Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Employing an inertial measurement unit (IMU) as an additional sensor can dramatically improve both reliability and accuracy of visual/Lidar odometry (VO/LO). Different IMU integration models are introduced using different assumptions on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-03 John Henawy , Zhengguo Li , Wei Yun Yau , Gerald Seet , Kong Wah Wan

Building a complete inertial navigation system using the limited quality data provided by current smartphones has been regarded challenging, if not impossible. This paper shows that by careful crafting and accounting for the weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Arno Solin , Santiago Cortes , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala
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