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Visual inertial odometry (VIO) is a process for fusing visual and kinematic data to understand a machine's state in a navigation task. Olfactory inertial odometry (OIO) is an analog to VIO that fuses signals from gas sensors with inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Kordel K. France , Ovidiu Daescu , Anirban Paul , Shalini Prasad

We present a multi-camera visual-inertial odometry system based on factor graph optimization which estimates motion by using all cameras simultaneously while retaining a fixed overall feature budget. We focus on motion tracking in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Lintong Zhang , David Wisth , Marco Camurri , Maurice Fallon

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the pose estimation backbone for most AR/VR and autonomous robotic systems today, in both academia and industry. However, these systems are highly sensitive to the initialization of key parameters such as…

We present an efficient multi-sensor odometry system for mobile platforms that jointly optimizes visual, lidar, and inertial information within a single integrated factor graph. This runs in real-time at full framerate using fixed lag…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 David Wisth , Marco Camurri , Sandipan Das , Maurice Fallon

In this article, a tutorial introduction to visual-inertial navigation(VIN) is presented. Visual and inertial perception are two complementary sensing modalities. Cameras and inertial measurement units (IMU) are the corresponding sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yangyang Ning

This paper presents Navion, an energy-efficient accelerator for visual-inertial odometry (VIO) that enables autonomous navigation of miniaturized robots (e.g., nano drones), and virtual/augmented reality on portable devices. The chip uses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Amr Suleiman , Zhengdong Zhang , Luca Carlone , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

Millimeter wave radar can measure distances, directions, and Doppler velocity for objects in harsh conditions such as fog. The 4D imaging radar with both vertical and horizontal data resembling an image can also measure objects' height.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yuan Zhuang , Binliang Wang , Jianzhu Huai , Miao Li

A monocular visual-inertial system (VINS), consisting of a camera and a low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU), forms the minimum sensor suite for metric six degrees-of-freedom (DOF) state estimation. However, the lack of direct distance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Tong Qin , Peiliang Li , Shaojie Shen

Visual Odometry (VO) is a method to estimate self-motion of a mobile robot using visual sensors. Unlike odometry based on integrating differential measurements that can accumulate errors, such as inertial sensors or wheel encoders, visual…

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) cannot recover metric scale from vision alone; scale must be resolved through inertial measurements. We present a trajectory-dependent observability analysis showing that translational acceleration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hadush Hailu , Bruk Gebregziabher

Accurate and reliable estimation of biases of low-cost Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) is a key factor to maintain the resilience of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), particularly when visual tracking fails in challenging areas. In such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yang Yi , Kunqing Wang , Jinpu Zhang , Zhen Tan , Xiangke Wang , Hui Shen , Dewen Hu

We introduce OpenVO, a novel framework for Open-world Visual Odometry (VO) with temporal awareness under limited input conditions. OpenVO effectively estimates real-world-scale ego-motion from monocular dashcam footage with varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Phuc D. A. Nguyen , Anh N. Nhu , Ming C. Lin

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

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) 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

In recent years, Onboard Self Localization (OSL) methods based on cameras or Lidar have achieved many significant progresses. However, some issues such as estimation drift and feature-dependence still remain inherent limitations. On the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Yang Lyu , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Estimating motion from images is a well-studied problem in computer vision and robotics. Previous work has developed techniques to estimate the motion of a moving camera in a largely static environment (e.g., visual odometry) and to segment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Kevin M. Judd , Jonathan D. Gammell , Paul Newman

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

Visual odometry is the process of estimating the position and orientation of a camera by analyzing the images associated to it. This paper develops a quick and accurate approach to visual odometry of a moving RGB-D camera navigating on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Afonso Fontes , Jose Everardo Bessa Maia

In the field of multi-sensor fusion for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), monocular cameras and IMUs are widely used to build simple and effective visual-inertial systems. However, limited research has explored the integration…