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Odometry estimation is crucial for every autonomous system requiring navigation in an unknown environment. In modern mobile robots, 3D LiDAR-inertial systems are often used for this task. By fusing LiDAR scans and IMU measurements, these…

LiDAR Inertial Odometry (LIO) is a critical component for many mobile robots that need to navigate without relying on external positioning (e.g., GPS). Platforms that operate autonomously in different environments and with heterogeneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Rowan Border , Margarita Chli

Aggressive motions from agile flights or traversing irregular terrain induce motion distortion in LiDAR scans that can degrade state estimation and mapping. Some methods exist to mitigate this effect, but they are still too simplistic or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Kenny Chen , Ryan Nemiroff , Brett T. Lopez

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

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

This paper presents a fast lidar-inertial odometry (LIO) that is robust to aggressive motion. To achieve robust tracking in aggressive motion scenes, we exploit the continuous scanning property of lidar to adaptively divide the full scan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jun Liu , Yunzhou Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhao , Zhengnan He

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO), which fuses complementary information of a LiDAR and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), is an attractive solution for state estimation. In LIO, both pose and velocity are regarded as state variables that need…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zikang Yuan , Fengtian Lang , Tianle Xu , Xin Yang

Existing LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) methods typically utilize the prior trajectory derived from the IMU integration to compensate for the motion distortion within LiDAR frames. However, discrepancies between the prior and true trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tianxiang Zhang , Xuanxuan Zhang , Wenlei Fan , Xin Xia , Huai Yu , Lin Wang , You Li

Odometry estimation using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and an inertial measurement unit (IMU), known as LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO), often suffers from performance degradation in degenerate environments, such as long corridors or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Seongjun Kim , Daehan Lee , Junwoo Hong , Sanghyun Park , Hyunyoung Jo , Soohee Han

To address the challenges of localization drift and perception-planning coupling in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in open-top scenarios (e.g., collapsed buildings, roofless mazes), this paper proposes EAROL, a novel framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xinkai Liang , Yigu Ge , Yangxi Shi , Haoyu Yang , Xu Cao , Hao Fang

This paper addresses the challenge of Lidar-Inertial Odometry (LIO) in dynamic environments, where conventional methods often fail due to their static-world assumptions. Traditional LIO algorithms perform poorly when dynamic objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chen Zhiqiang , Le Gentil Cedric , Lin Fuling , Lu Minghao , Qiao Qiyuan , Xu Bowen , Qi Yuhua , Lu Peng

Autonomous robotic systems heavily rely on environment knowledge to safely navigate. For search & rescue, a flying robot requires robust real-time perception, enabled by complementary sensors. IMU data constrains acceleration and rotation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Over the last few decades, numerous LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) algorithms have been developed, demonstrating satisfactory performance across diverse environments. Most of these algorithms have predominantly been validated in open outdoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Dongha Chung , Jinwhan Kim

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

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) has been widely used in robotics due to its high accuracy. However, its performance degrades in degenerate environments, such as long corridors and high-altitude flights, where LiDAR measurements are imbalanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Eungchang Mason Lee , Kevin Christiansen Marsim , Hyun Myung

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-inertial odometry (LIO) enables accurate localization and mapping for autonomous navigation in various scenes. However, its performance remains sensitive to variations in spatial scale, which refers to…

This paper proposes a novel LiDAR-Inertial odometry (LIO), named SR-LIO, based on an iterated extended Kalman filter (iEKF) framework. We adapt the sweep reconstruction method, which segments and reconstructs raw input sweeps from spinning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Zikang Yuan , Fengtian Lang , Tianle Xu , Xin Yang

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

In this paper, a LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) method that eliminates the influence of moving objects in dynamic driving scenarios is proposed. This method constructs binarized labels for 3D points of current sweep, and utilizes the label…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zikang Yuan , Xiaoxiang Wang , Jingying Wu , Junda Cheng , Xin Yang

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) demonstrates outstanding accuracy and stability in general low-speed and smooth motion scenarios. However, in high-speed and intense motion scenarios, such as sharp turns, two primary challenges arise: firstly,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Tianxiang Zhang , Xuanxuan Zhang , Zongbo Liao , Xin Xia , You Li
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