LiDAR odometry survey: recent advancements and remaining challenges

D Lee, M Jung, W Yang, A Kim - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2024 - Springer
Odometry is crucial for robot navigation, particularly in situations where global positioning
methods like global positioning system are unavailable. The main goal of odometry is to …

Do we need scan-matching in radar odometry?

V Kubelka, E Fritz, M Magnusson - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a current increase in the development of" 4D" Doppler-capable radar and lidar
range sensors that produce 3D point clouds where all points also have information about the …

Are doppler velocity measurements useful for spinning radar odometry?

D Lisus, K Burnett, DJ Yoon, R Poulton… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spinning, frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars with 360° coverage have
been gaining popularity for autonomous-vehicle navigation. However, unlike …

GNSS/Multi-Sensor Fusion Using Continuous-Time Factor Graph Optimization for Robust Localization

H Zhang, CC Chen, H Vallery… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and robust vehicle localization in highly urbanized areas is challenging. Sensors
are often corrupted in those complicated and large-scale environments. This article …

Doppler-only single-scan 3d vehicle odometry

A Galeote-Luque, V Kubelka… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel 3D odometry method that recovers the full motion of a vehicle only from
a Doppler-capable range sensor. It leverages the radial velocities measured from the scene …

Efficient Doppler LiDAR Odometry using Scan Slicing and Vehicle Kinematics

C Pang, Z Shen, R Wu, Z Fang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In contrast to traditional 3D LiDAR, the newly introduced 4D LiDAR not only provides
conventional point cloud data but also offers Doppler velocity measurements of the point …

FMCW-LIO: A Doppler LiDAR-Inertial Odometry

M Zhao, J Wang, T Gao, C Xu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) or SLAM methods heavily rely on geometric
features of environments, as LiDARs primarily provide range measurements instead of …

Free-Init: Scan-Free, Motion-Free, and Correspondence-Free Initialization for Doppler LiDAR-Inertial Systems

M Zhao, J Wang, T Gao, C Xu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust initialization is crucial for online systems. In the letter, a high-frequency and resilient
initialization framework is designed for LiDAR-inertial systems, leveraging both inertial …