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Recently, the progress in the radar sensing technology consisting in the miniaturization of the packages and increase in measuring precision has drawn the interest of the robotics research community. Indeed, a crucial task enabling autonomy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jan Michalczyk

We formulate for the first time visual-inertial initialization as an optimal estimation problem, in the sense of maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) estimation. This allows us to properly take into account IMU measurement uncertainty, which was…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Carlos Campos , José M. M. Montiel , Juan D. Tardós

In this work, we propose a novel method for performing inertial aided navigation, by using deep neural networks (DNNs). To date, most DNN inertial navigation methods focus on the task of inertial odometry, by taking gyroscope and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ming Zhang , Mingming Zhang , Yiming Chen , Mingyang Li

Index modulation, where information bits are conveyed through antenna indices (spatial modulation) and subcarrier indices (subcarrier index modulation) in addition to information bits conveyed through conventional modulation symbols, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-08 T. Lakshmi Narasimhan , A. Chockalingam

This study presents an enhanced proprioceptive method for accurate shape estimation of soft robots using only off-the-shelf sensors, ensuring cost-effectiveness and easy applicability. By integrating inertial measurement units (IMUs) with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dong Heon Han , Mayank Mehta , Runze Zuo , Zachary Wanger , Daniel Bruder

Simple yet accurate results for radiative transfer in layered media with discontinuous refractive index are obtained by the method of K-integrals, originally developed for neutron transport analysis. These are certain weighted integrals…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-05 Adrian C Selden

The timely precoding of frequency division duplex (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is a substantial challenge in practice, especially in mobile environments. In order to improve the precoding performance and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ziao Qin , Haifan Yin

The modeling of high-dimensional spatio-temporal processes presents a fundamental dichotomy between the probabilistic rigor of classical geostatistics and the flexible, high-capacity representations of deep learning. While Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yuri Calleo

Within the expansive domain of optical sciences, achieving the precise characterization of light beams stands as a fundamental pursuit, pivotal for various applications, including telecommunications and imaging technologies. This study…

We present an efficient method for evaluating random phase errors in phase shifters within photonic integrated circuits, avoiding the computational cost of traditional Monte Carlo simulations. By modeling spatially correlated manufacturing…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-09 Zijian Zhang

Data-driven reachability analysis provides guaranteed outer approximations of reachable sets from input-state measurements, yet each propagation step requires a matrix-zonotope multiplication whose cost grows with the horizon length,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Zhen Zhang , Ahmad Hafez , Peng Xie , Yanliang Huang , Wenyuan Wu , Amr Alanwar

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

Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar plays a pivotal role in the field of remote sensing. The increasing degree of FMCW radar deployment has increased the mutual interference, which weakens the detection capabilities of radars…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Ziang Zhang , Guangzhi Chen , Youlong Weng , Shunchuan Yang , Zhiyu Jia , Jingxuan Chen

Time series imputation models have traditionally been developed using complete datasets with artificial masking patterns to simulate missing values. However, in real-world infrastructure monitoring, practitioners often encounter datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ryan Hildebrant , Rahul Bhope , Sharad Mehrotra , Christopher Tull , Nalini Venkatasubramanian

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam protocols consist of multiple contrast-weighted images of the same anatomy to emphasize different tissue properties. Due to the long acquisition times required to collect fully sampled k-space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-08 Brett Levac , Ajil Jalal , Kannan Ramchandran , Jonathan I. Tamir

A new obstacle detection algorithm for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is presented. A state-of-the-art graphical model for semantic segmentation is extended to incorporate boat pitch and roll measurements from the on-board inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Borja Bovcon , Rok Mandeljc , Janez Perš , Matej Kristan

Accurate calibration of intrinsic (odometer scaling factors) and extrinsic parameters (IMU-odometer translation and rotation) is essential for autonomous ground vehicle localization. Existing GNSS-aided approaches often rely on positioning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Baoshan Song , Xiao Xia , Penggao Yan , Yihan Zhong , Weisong Wen , Li-Ta Hsu

LiDAR-based localization and SLAM often rely on iterative matching algorithms, particularly the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm, to align sensor data with pre-existing maps or previous scans. However, ICP is prone to errors in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Minoo Dolatabadi , Fardin Ayar , Ehsan Javanmardi , Manabu Tsukada , Mahdi Javanmardi

Index modulation (IM) is one of the key enabling technologies for beyond fifth generation (B5G) and sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, attracting attention for its inherent energy and spectral efficiency resulting from conveying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Takumi Takahashi , David González G. , Osvaldo Gonsa

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is typically implemented using an optimization-based approach, with the factor graph often being employed due to its capability to seamlessly integrate residuals from both LiDAR and IMU measurements.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Naoki Akai , Takumi Nakao