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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

LiDAR odometry is a pivotal technology in the fields of autonomous driving and autonomous mobile robotics. However, most of the current works focus on nonlinear optimization methods, and still existing many challenges in using the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Wenlu Yu , Jie Xu , Chengwei Zhao , Lijun Zhao , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Mingming Bai , Lihua Xie

Kalman filter-based algorithms are fundamental for mobile robots, as they provide a computationally efficient solution to the challenging problem of state estimation. However, they rely on two main assumptions that are difficult to satisfy…

Attitude estimation is crucial in aerospace engineering, robotics, and virtual reality applications, but faces difficulties due to nonlinear system dynamics and sensor limitations. This paper addresses the challenge of attitude estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yash Pandey , Rahul Bhattacharyya , Yatindra Nath Singh

In this work, we explore the recent advances in equivariant filtering for inertial navigation systems to improve state estimation for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). Traditional state-of-the-art estimation methods, e.g., the multiplicative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Martin Scheiber , Alessandro Fornasier , Christian Brommer , Stephan Weiss

This work presents a novel target-free extrinsic calibration algorithm for a 3D Lidar and an IMU pair using an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) which exploits the \textit{motion based calibration constraint} for state update. The steps include,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Subodh Mishra , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

This letter re-visits the problem of visual-inertial navigation system (VINS) and presents a novel filter design we dub the multi state constraint equivariant filter (MSCEqF, in analogy to the well known MSCKF). We define a symmetry group…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Alessandro Fornasier , Pieter van Goor , Eren Allak , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

This paper derives the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for continuous-time systems on matrix Lie groups observed through discrete-time measurements. By modeling the system noise on the Lie algebra and adopting a Stratonovich interpretation for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Finn G. Maurer , Erlend A. Basso , Henrik M. Schmidt-Didlaukies , Torleiv H. Bryne

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

In this work we present a novel method to jointly calibrate a sensor suite consisting a 3D-LiDAR, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and Camera under an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) framework. We exploit pairwise constraints between the 3…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Subodh Mishra , Srikanth Saripalli

The widely-used Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) provides a straightforward recipe to estimate the mean and covariance of the state given all past measurements in a causal and recursive fashion. For a wide variety of applications, the EKF is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Stephanie Tsuei , Stefano Soatto , Paulo Tabuada , Mark B. Milam

Odometry in adverse weather conditions, such as fog, rain, and snow, presents significant challenges, as traditional vision and LiDAR-based methods often suffer from degraded performance. Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuocheng Yang , Yueming Cao , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Shaobing Xu

This paper presents a dual stage EKF (Extended Kalman Filter)-based algorithm for the real-time and robust stereo VIO (visual inertial odometry). The first stage of this EKF-based algorithm performs the fusion of accelerometer and gyroscope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Xiaogang Xiong , Wenqing Chen , Zhichao Liu , Qiang Shen

We present the Koopman-Inspired Learned Observations Extended Kalman Filter (KILO-EKF), which combines a standard EKF prediction step with a correction step based on a Koopman-inspired measurement model learned from data. By lifting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zi Cong Guo , James R. Forbes , Timothy D. Barfoot

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

This paper presents a computationally efficient and robust LiDAR-inertial odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR feature points with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterated extended Kalman filter to allow robust navigation in fast-motion,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Wei Xu , Fu Zhang

This letter proposes a reactive navigation strategy for recovering the altitude, translational velocity and orientation of Micro Aerial Vehicles. The main contribution lies in the direct and tight fusion of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Shangkun Zhong , Pakpong Chirarattananon

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

Accurate ego-motion estimation is a critical component of any autonomous system. Conventional ego-motion sensors, such as cameras and LiDARs, may be compromised in adverse environmental conditions, such as fog, heavy rain, or dust.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Vlaho-Josip Štironja , Luka Petrović , Juraj Peršić , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

While LiDAR and cameras are becoming ubiquitous for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) but can be ineffective in challenging environments, 4D millimeter-wave (MMW) radars that can provide robust 3D ranging and Doppler velocity measurements are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jinwen Zhu , Jun Hu , Xudong Zhao , Xiaoming Lang , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang