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Main Authors: Nisticò, Ylenia, Soares, João Carlos Virgolino, Solà, Joan, Semini, Claudio
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11674
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author Nisticò, Ylenia
Soares, João Carlos Virgolino
Solà, Joan
Semini, Claudio
author_facet Nisticò, Ylenia
Soares, João Carlos Virgolino
Solà, Joan
Semini, Claudio
contents We compare three state-of-the-art proprioceptive state estimators for quadruped robots: MUSE [1], the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) [2], and the Invariant Smoother (IS) [3], on the CYN-1 sequence of the GrandTour Dataset [4]. Our goal is to give practitioners clear guidance on accuracy and computation time: we report long-term accuracy (Absolute Trajectory Error, ATE), short-term accuracy (translational and rotational Relative Pose Error, RPE), and per-update computation time on a fixed hardware/software stack. On this dataset, RPEs are broadly similar across methods, while IEKF and IS achieve a lower ATE than MUSE. Runtime results highlight the accuracy-latency trade-offs across the three approaches. In the discussion, we outline the evaluation choices used to ensure a fair comparison and analyze factors that influence short-horizon metrics. Overall, this study provides a concise snapshot of accuracy and cost, helping readers choose an estimator that fits their application constraints, with all evaluation code and documentation released open-source at https://github.com/iit-DLSLab/state_estimation_benchmark for full reproducibility.
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spellingShingle A Proprioceptive-Only Benchmark for Quadruped State Estimation: ATE, RPE, and Runtime Trade-offs Between Filters and Smoothers
Nisticò, Ylenia
Soares, João Carlos Virgolino
Solà, Joan
Semini, Claudio
Robotics
We compare three state-of-the-art proprioceptive state estimators for quadruped robots: MUSE [1], the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) [2], and the Invariant Smoother (IS) [3], on the CYN-1 sequence of the GrandTour Dataset [4]. Our goal is to give practitioners clear guidance on accuracy and computation time: we report long-term accuracy (Absolute Trajectory Error, ATE), short-term accuracy (translational and rotational Relative Pose Error, RPE), and per-update computation time on a fixed hardware/software stack. On this dataset, RPEs are broadly similar across methods, while IEKF and IS achieve a lower ATE than MUSE. Runtime results highlight the accuracy-latency trade-offs across the three approaches. In the discussion, we outline the evaluation choices used to ensure a fair comparison and analyze factors that influence short-horizon metrics. Overall, this study provides a concise snapshot of accuracy and cost, helping readers choose an estimator that fits their application constraints, with all evaluation code and documentation released open-source at https://github.com/iit-DLSLab/state_estimation_benchmark for full reproducibility.
title A Proprioceptive-Only Benchmark for Quadruped State Estimation: ATE, RPE, and Runtime Trade-offs Between Filters and Smoothers
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11674