EqVIO: An equivariant filter for visual-inertial odometry

P van Goor, R Mahony - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the problem of estimating a robot's trajectory by combining
information from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a camera and is of great interest to …

A note on the extended Kalman filter on a manifold

Y Ge, P Van Goor, R Mahony - 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The kinematics of many control systems, especially in the robotics field, naturally live on
smooth manifolds. Most classical state-estimation algorithms, including the extended …

Equivariant Symmetries for Aided Inertial Navigation

A Fornasier - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14297, 2024 - arxiv.org
Respecting the geometry of the underlying system and exploiting its symmetry have been
driving concepts in deriving modern geometric filters for inertial navigation systems (INSs) …

A Geometric Perspective on Fusing Gaussian Distributions on Lie Groups

Y Ge, P van Goor, R Mahony - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stochastic inference on Lie groups plays a key role in state estimation problems such as;
inertial navigation, visual inertial odometry, pose estimation in virtual reality, etc. A key …

Equivariant Filters for Visual Spatial Awareness

P van Goor - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Algorithms that estimate the navigation states and local environment of a robotic vehicle are
core enabling technologies for autonomous systems. The first work that exploited symmetry …

Exploiting Equivariance in the Design of Tracking Controllers for Euler-Poincare Systems on Matrix Lie Groups

M Hampsey, P van Goor, R Banavar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The trajectory tracking problem is a fundamental control task in the study of mechanical
systems. A key construction in tracking control is the error or difference between an actual …