AirIO: Learning Inertial Odometry with Enhanced IMU Feature Observability
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| author | Qiu, Yuheng Xu, Can Chen, Yutian Zhao, Shibo Geng, Junyi Scherer, Sebastian |
| author_facet | Qiu, Yuheng Xu, Can Chen, Yutian Zhao, Shibo Geng, Junyi Scherer, Sebastian |
| contents | Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) offers a lightweight and cost-effective solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, yet existing learning-based IO models often fail to generalize to UAVs due to the highly dynamic and non-linear-flight patterns that differ from pedestrian motion. In this work, we identify that the conventional practice of transforming raw IMU data to global coordinates undermines the observability of critical kinematic information in UAVs. By preserving the body-frame representation, our method achieves substantial performance improvements, with a 66.7% average increase in accuracy across three datasets. Furthermore, explicitly encoding attitude information into the motion network results in an additional 23.8% improvement over prior results. Combined with a data-driven IMU correction model (AirIMU) and an uncertainty-aware Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), our approach ensures robust state estimation under aggressive UAV maneuvers without relying on external sensors or control inputs. Notably, our method also demonstrates strong generalizability to unseen data not included in the training set, underscoring its potential for real-world UAV applications. |
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| spellingShingle | AirIO: Learning Inertial Odometry with Enhanced IMU Feature Observability Qiu, Yuheng Xu, Can Chen, Yutian Zhao, Shibo Geng, Junyi Scherer, Sebastian Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) offers a lightweight and cost-effective solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, yet existing learning-based IO models often fail to generalize to UAVs due to the highly dynamic and non-linear-flight patterns that differ from pedestrian motion. In this work, we identify that the conventional practice of transforming raw IMU data to global coordinates undermines the observability of critical kinematic information in UAVs. By preserving the body-frame representation, our method achieves substantial performance improvements, with a 66.7% average increase in accuracy across three datasets. Furthermore, explicitly encoding attitude information into the motion network results in an additional 23.8% improvement over prior results. Combined with a data-driven IMU correction model (AirIMU) and an uncertainty-aware Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), our approach ensures robust state estimation under aggressive UAV maneuvers without relying on external sensors or control inputs. Notably, our method also demonstrates strong generalizability to unseen data not included in the training set, underscoring its potential for real-world UAV applications. |
| title | AirIO: Learning Inertial Odometry with Enhanced IMU Feature Observability |
| topic | Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15659 |