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Main Authors: Zhang, Shanshan, Wang, Siyue, Wu, Qi Zhang Liqin, Wen, Tianshui, Zhou, Ziheng, Hong, Xuemin, Zheng, Lingxiang, Yang, Yu
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16121
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author Zhang, Shanshan
Wang, Siyue
Wu, Qi Zhang Liqin
Wen, Tianshui
Zhou, Ziheng
Hong, Xuemin
Zheng, Lingxiang
Yang, Yu
author_facet Zhang, Shanshan
Wang, Siyue
Wu, Qi Zhang Liqin
Wen, Tianshui
Zhou, Ziheng
Hong, Xuemin
Zheng, Lingxiang
Yang, Yu
contents Inertial odometry (IO) directly estimates the position of a carrier from inertial sensor measurements and serves as a core technology for the widespread deployment of consumer grade localization systems. While existing IO methods can accurately reconstruct simple and near linear motion trajectories, they often fail to account for drift errors caused by complex motion patterns such as turning. This limitation significantly degrades localization accuracy and restricts the applicability of IO systems in real world scenarios. To address these challenges, we propose a lightweight IO framework. Specifically, inertial data is projected into a high dimensional implicit nonlinear feature space using the Star Operation method, enabling the extraction of complex motion features that are typically overlooked. We further introduce a collaborative attention mechanism that jointly models global motion dynamics across both channel and temporal dimensions. In addition, we design Multi Scale Gated Convolution Units to capture fine grained dynamic variations throughout the motion process, thereby enhancing the model's ability to learn rich and expressive motion representations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method consistently outperforms SOTA baselines across six widely used inertial datasets. Compared to baseline models on the RoNIN dataset, it achieves reductions in ATE ranging from 2.26% to 65.78%, thereby establishing a new benchmark in the field.
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spellingShingle StarIO: A Lightweight Inertial Odometry for Nonlinear Motion
Zhang, Shanshan
Wang, Siyue
Wu, Qi Zhang Liqin
Wen, Tianshui
Zhou, Ziheng
Hong, Xuemin
Zheng, Lingxiang
Yang, Yu
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Inertial odometry (IO) directly estimates the position of a carrier from inertial sensor measurements and serves as a core technology for the widespread deployment of consumer grade localization systems. While existing IO methods can accurately reconstruct simple and near linear motion trajectories, they often fail to account for drift errors caused by complex motion patterns such as turning. This limitation significantly degrades localization accuracy and restricts the applicability of IO systems in real world scenarios. To address these challenges, we propose a lightweight IO framework. Specifically, inertial data is projected into a high dimensional implicit nonlinear feature space using the Star Operation method, enabling the extraction of complex motion features that are typically overlooked. We further introduce a collaborative attention mechanism that jointly models global motion dynamics across both channel and temporal dimensions. In addition, we design Multi Scale Gated Convolution Units to capture fine grained dynamic variations throughout the motion process, thereby enhancing the model's ability to learn rich and expressive motion representations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method consistently outperforms SOTA baselines across six widely used inertial datasets. Compared to baseline models on the RoNIN dataset, it achieves reductions in ATE ranging from 2.26% to 65.78%, thereby establishing a new benchmark in the field.
title StarIO: A Lightweight Inertial Odometry for Nonlinear Motion
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16121