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 …

LIVER: A tightly coupled LiDAR-inertial-visual state estimator with high robustness for underground environments

T Wen, Y Fang, B Lu, X Zhang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose a tightly coupled LiDAR-inertial-visual (LIV) state estimator termed
LIVER, which achieves robust and accurate localization and mapping in underground …

Continuous-Time Radar-Inertial and Lidar-Inertial Odometry using a Gaussian Process Motion Prior

K Burnett, AP Schoellig, TD Barfoot - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06174, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we demonstrate continuous-time radar-inertial and lidar-inertial odometry using
a Gaussian process motion prior. Using a sparse prior, we demonstrate improved …

Gaussian-LIC: Photo-realistic LiDAR-Inertial-Camera SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting

X Lang, L Li, H Zhang, F Xiong, M Xu, Y Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a real-time LiDAR-Inertial-Camera SLAM system with 3D Gaussian Splatting as
the mapping backend. Leveraging robust pose estimates from our LiDAR-Inertial-Camera …

IMU as an Input vs. a Measurement of the State in Inertial-Aided State Estimation

K Burnett, AP Schoellig, TD Barfoot - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05968, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this technical report, we compare treating an IMU as an input to a motion model against
treating it as a measurement of the state in a continuous-time state estimation framework …

ATI-CTLO: Adaptive Temporal Interval-based Continuous-Time LiDAR-Only Odometry

B Zhou, J Wu, Y Pan, C Lu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20619, 2024 - arxiv.org
The motion distortion in LiDAR scans caused by aggressive robot motion and varying terrain
features significantly impacts the positioning and mapping performance of 3D LiDAR …