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Radar-based odometry is a popular solution for ego-motion estimation in conditions where other exteroceptive sensors may degrade, whether due to poor lighting or challenging weather conditions; however, scanning radars have the downside of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nader J. Abu-Alrub , Nathir A. Rawashdeh

Radar offers the advantage of providing additional physical properties related to observed objects. In this study, we design a physical-enhanced radar-inertial odometry system that capitalizes on the Doppler velocities and radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Qiucan Huang , Yuchen Liang , Zhijian Qiao , Shaojie Shen , Huan Yin

In order to tackle the challenge of unfavorable weather conditions such as rain and snow, radar is being revisited as a parallel sensing modality to vision and lidar. Recent works have made tremendous progress in applying spinning radar to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Keenan Burnett , Angela P. Schoellig , Timothy D. Barfoot

We propose a novel real-time LiDAR intensity image-based simultaneous localization and mapping method , which addresses the geometry degeneracy problem in unstructured environments. Traditional LiDAR-based front-end odometry mostly relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wenqiang Du , Giovanni Beltrame

Pavement condition is crucial for civil infrastructure maintenance. This task usually requires efficient road damage localization, which can be accomplished by the visual odometry system embedded in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Huaiyang Huang , Rui Fan , Yilong Zhu , Ming Liu , Ioannis Pitas

Rotating FMCW radar odometry methods often assume flat ground conditions. While this assumption is sufficient in many scenarios, including urban environments or flat mining setups, the highly dynamic terrain of subarctic environments poses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Matěj Boxan , William Larrivée-Hardy , François Pomerleau

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

Combining multiple LiDARs enables a robot to maximize its perceptual awareness of environments and obtain sufficient measurements, which is promising for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). This paper proposes a system to achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jianhao Jiao , Haoyang Ye , Yilong Zhu , Ming Liu

LiDAR odometry plays an important role in self-localization and mapping for autonomous navigation, which is usually treated as a scan registration problem. Although having achieved promising performance on KITTI odometry benchmark, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Xin Zheng , Jianke Zhu

Existing radar sensors can be classified into automotive and scanning radars. While most radar odometry (RO) methods are only designed for a specific type of radar, our RO method adapts to both scanning and automotive radars. Our RO is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Pou-Chun Kung , Chieh-Chih Wang , Wen-Chieh Lin

This paper presents an approach to radar odometry on $SE(3)$ which utilizes a constant acceleration motion prior. The motion prior is integrated into a sliding window optimization scheme. We use the Magnus expansion to accurately integrate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Kyle Retan , Frasher Loshaj , Michael Heizmann

Radar and lidar, provided by two different range sensors, each has pros and cons of various perception tasks on mobile robots or autonomous driving. In this paper, a Monte Carlo system is used to localize the robot with a rotating radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Huan Yin , Yue Wang , Li Tang , Rong Xiong

Radar has become an essential sensor for autonomous navigation, especially in challenging environments where camera and LiDAR sensors fail. 4D single-chip millimeter-wave radar systems, in particular, have drawn increasing attention thanks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingqi Jiang , Shida Xu , Kaicheng Zhang , Jiyuan Wei , Jingyang Wang , Sen Wang

This paper presents an end-to-end radar odometry system which delivers robust, real-time pose estimates based on a learned embedding space free of sensing artefacts and distractor objects. The system deploys a fully differentiable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Dan Barnes , Rob Weston , Ingmar Posner

Conventional SLAM systems using visual or LiDAR data often struggle in poor lighting and severe weather. Although 4D radar is suited for such environments, its sparse and noisy point clouds hinder accurate odometry estimation, while the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhiheng Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Shen , Yichen Zhao , Zheng Fang

The challenge of 3D multi-object tracking is achieving robustness in real-world applications, for example under adverse conditions and maintaining consistency as distance increases. To overcome these challenges, sensor fusion approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Bingxue Xu , Emil Hedemalm , Ajinkya Khoche , Patric Jensfelt

Radar SLAM is robust in challenging conditions, such as fog, dust, and smoke, but suffers from the sparsity and noisiness of radar sensing, including speckle noise and multipath effects. This study provides a performance-enhanced radar SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yang Xu , Qiucan Huang , Shaojie Shen , Huan Yin

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

GPS-based vehicle localization and tracking suffers from unstable positional information commonly experienced in tunnel segments and in dense urban areas. Also, both Visual Odometry (VO) and Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) are susceptible to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yu Xiang Tan , Malika Meghjani

Autonomous vehicles and robots rely on accurate odometry estimation in GPS-denied environments. While LiDARs and cameras struggle under extreme weather, 4D mmWave radar emerges as a robust alternative with all-weather operability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zeyu Han , Shuocheng Yang , Minghan Zhu , Fang Zhang , Shaobing Xu , Maani Ghaffari , Jianqiang Wang