S$^3$E: Self-Supervised State Estimation for Radar-Inertial System

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Autores principales: Wang, Shengpeng, Xie, Yulong, Liao, Qing, Wang, Wei
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Publicado: 2025
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author Wang, Shengpeng
Xie, Yulong
Liao, Qing
Wang, Wei
author_facet Wang, Shengpeng
Xie, Yulong
Liao, Qing
Wang, Wei
contents Millimeter-wave radar for state estimation is gaining significant attention for its affordability and reliability in harsh conditions. Existing localization solutions typically rely on post-processed radar point clouds as landmark points. Nonetheless, the inherent sparsity of radar point clouds, ghost points from multi-path effects, and limited angle resolution in single-chirp radar severely degrade state estimation performance. To address these issues, we propose S$^3$E, a \textbf{S}elf-\textbf{S}upervised \textbf{S}tate \textbf{E}stimator that employs more richly informative radar signal spectra to bypass sparse points and fuses complementary inertial information to achieve accurate localization. S$^3$E fully explores the association between \textit{exteroceptive} radar and \textit{proprioceptive} inertial sensor to achieve complementary benefits. To deal with limited angle resolution, we introduce a novel cross-fusion technique that enhances spatial structure information by exploiting subtle rotational shift correlations across heterogeneous data. The experimental results demonstrate our method achieves robust and accurate performance without relying on localization ground truth supervision. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to achieve state estimation by fusing radar spectra and inertial data in a complementary self-supervised manner.
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spellingShingle S$^3$E: Self-Supervised State Estimation for Radar-Inertial System
Wang, Shengpeng
Xie, Yulong
Liao, Qing
Wang, Wei
Robotics
Millimeter-wave radar for state estimation is gaining significant attention for its affordability and reliability in harsh conditions. Existing localization solutions typically rely on post-processed radar point clouds as landmark points. Nonetheless, the inherent sparsity of radar point clouds, ghost points from multi-path effects, and limited angle resolution in single-chirp radar severely degrade state estimation performance. To address these issues, we propose S$^3$E, a \textbf{S}elf-\textbf{S}upervised \textbf{S}tate \textbf{E}stimator that employs more richly informative radar signal spectra to bypass sparse points and fuses complementary inertial information to achieve accurate localization. S$^3$E fully explores the association between \textit{exteroceptive} radar and \textit{proprioceptive} inertial sensor to achieve complementary benefits. To deal with limited angle resolution, we introduce a novel cross-fusion technique that enhances spatial structure information by exploiting subtle rotational shift correlations across heterogeneous data. The experimental results demonstrate our method achieves robust and accurate performance without relying on localization ground truth supervision. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to achieve state estimation by fusing radar spectra and inertial data in a complementary self-supervised manner.
title S$^3$E: Self-Supervised State Estimation for Radar-Inertial System
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25984