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It is typically challenging for visual or visual-inertial odometry systems to handle the problems of dynamic scenes and pure rotation. In this work, we design a novel visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system called RD-VIO to handle both of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jinyu Li , Xiaokun Pan , Gan Huang , Ziyang Zhang , Nan Wang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a widely used computer vision method that determines an agent's movement through a camera and an IMU sensor. This paper presents an efficient and accurate VIO pipeline optimized for applications on micro-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) is the problem of estimating a robot's trajectory by combining information from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a camera, and is of great interest to the robotics community. This paper develops a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

This paper presents an extension to visual inertial odometry (VIO) by introducing tightly-coupled fusion of magnetometer measurements. A sliding window of keyframes is optimized by minimizing re-projection errors, relative inertial errors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Bharat Joshi , Ioannis Rekleitis

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a low-cost solution to provide high-accuracy, low-drifting pose estimation. However, it has been meeting challenges in vehicular scenarios due to limited dynamics and lack of stable features. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Xuanbin Wang , Zhiheng Shen

Reliable localization is a fundamental requirement for multi-robot systems operating in GPS-denied environments. Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) provides lightweight and accurate motion estimation but suffers from cumulative drift in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ziwei Kang , Yizhi Zhou

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 this paper, we propose an Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) based Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) using multiple features in man-made environments. Conventional EKF-based VIO usually suffers from system inconsistency and angular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Tong Hua , Tao Li , Liang Pang , Guoqing Liu , Wencheng Xuanyuan , Chang Shu , Ling Pei

Reliable radar inertial odometry (RIO) requires mitigating IMU bias drift, a challenge that intensifies in subterranean environments due to extreme temperatures and gravity-induced accelerations. Cost-effective IMUs such as the Pixhawk,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Moumita Mukherjee , Magnus Norén , Anton Koval , Avijit Banerjee , George Nikolakopoulos

This letter presents an accurate and robust Lidar Inertial Odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR scans with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterative error state Kalman filter for robust and fast localization. To achieve robust correspondence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xingyu Ji , Shenghai Yuan , Pengyu Yin , Lihua Xie

Underwater environments impose severe challenges to visual-inertial odometry systems, as strong light attenuation, marine snow and turbidity, together with weakly exciting motions, degrade inertial observability and cause frequent tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hao Wei , Peiji Wang , Qianhao Wang , Tong Qin , Fei Gao , Yulin Si

Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) has been successfully applied in Visual-inertial Odometry (VIO) as an advanced achievement of Kalman filter, showing great potential in sensor fusion. In this paper, we propose partial IEKF (PIEKF),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Tong Hua , Tao Li , Ling Pei

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

Robust stereo visual-inertial odometry (VIO) remains challenging in low-texture scenes and under abrupt illumination changes, where point features become sparse and unstable, leading to ambiguous association and under-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zikun Chen , Wentao Zhao , Yihe Niu , Tianchen Deng , Jingchuan Wang

Vision-based odometry has been widely adopted in autonomous driving owing to its low cost and lightweight setup; however, its performance often degrades in complex outdoor urban environments. To address these challenges, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhixin Zhang , Liang Zhao , Pawel Ladosz

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a vital technique used in robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous vehicles. It combines visual and inertial measurements to accurately estimate position and orientation. Existing VIO methods assume a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Dan Solodar , Itzik Klein

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

Accurate localization in autonomous driving is critical for successful missions including environmental mapping and survivor searches. In visually challenging environments, including low-light conditions, overexposure, illumination changes,…

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and Odometry are important systems for estimating the position of mobile devices, such as robots and cars, utilizing one or more sensors. Particularly in camera-based SLAM or Odometry,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sanghyun Park , Soohee Han

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is an important technology for autonomous robots with power and payload constraints. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for VIO with stereo cameras which integrates and calibrates the velocity-control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Haolong Li , Joerg Stueckler