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Main Authors: Dong, Yan, Xu, Enci, Qiu, Shaoqiang, Li, Wenxuan, Liu, Yang, Han, Bin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04311
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author Dong, Yan
Xu, Enci
Qiu, Shaoqiang
Li, Wenxuan
Liu, Yang
Han, Bin
author_facet Dong, Yan
Xu, Enci
Qiu, Shaoqiang
Li, Wenxuan
Liu, Yang
Han, Bin
contents High-speed ground robots moving on unstructured terrains generate intense high-frequency vibrations, leading to LiDAR scan distortions in Lidar-inertial odometry (LIO). Accurate and efficient undistortion is extremely challenging due to (1) rapid and non-smooth state changes during intense vibrations and (2) unpredictable IMU noise coupled with a limited IMU sampling frequency. To address this issue, this paper introduces post-undistortion uncertainty. First, we model the undistortion errors caused by linear and angular vibrations and assign post-undistortion uncertainty to each point. We then leverage this uncertainty to guide point-to-map matching, compute uncertainty-aware residuals, and update the odometry states using an iterated Kalman filter. We conduct vibration-platform and mobile-platform experiments on multiple public datasets as well as our own recordings, demonstrating that our method achieves better performance than other methods when LiDAR undergoes intense vibration.
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spellingShingle Vibration-aware Lidar-Inertial Odometry based on Point-wise Post-Undistortion Uncertainty
Dong, Yan
Xu, Enci
Qiu, Shaoqiang
Li, Wenxuan
Liu, Yang
Han, Bin
Robotics
High-speed ground robots moving on unstructured terrains generate intense high-frequency vibrations, leading to LiDAR scan distortions in Lidar-inertial odometry (LIO). Accurate and efficient undistortion is extremely challenging due to (1) rapid and non-smooth state changes during intense vibrations and (2) unpredictable IMU noise coupled with a limited IMU sampling frequency. To address this issue, this paper introduces post-undistortion uncertainty. First, we model the undistortion errors caused by linear and angular vibrations and assign post-undistortion uncertainty to each point. We then leverage this uncertainty to guide point-to-map matching, compute uncertainty-aware residuals, and update the odometry states using an iterated Kalman filter. We conduct vibration-platform and mobile-platform experiments on multiple public datasets as well as our own recordings, demonstrating that our method achieves better performance than other methods when LiDAR undergoes intense vibration.
title Vibration-aware Lidar-Inertial Odometry based on Point-wise Post-Undistortion Uncertainty
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04311