This paper presents a fast LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) that is robust to aggressive motion. To achieve robust tracking in aggressive motion scenes, we exploit the continuous scanning property of LiDAR to adaptively divide the full scan into multiple partial scans (named sub-frames) according to the motion intensity. And to avoid the degradation of sub-frames resulting from insufficient constraints, we propose a robust state estimation method based on a tightly-coupled iterated error state Kalman smoother (ESKS) framework. Furthermore, we propose a robocentric voxel map (RC-Vox) to improve the system’s efficiency. The RC-Vox allows efficient maintenance of map points and k nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries by mapping local map points into a fixed-size, two-layer 3D array structure. Extensive experiments are conducted on 27 sequences from 4 public datasets, our own dataset and real-world scenes. The results show that our system can achieve stable tracking in aggressive motion scenes (angular velocity up to 21.8 rad/s) that cannot be handled by other state-of-the-art methods, while our system can achieve competitive performance with these methods in general scenes. Furthermore, thanks to the RC-Vox, our system is much faster than the most efficient LIO system currently published.


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    Title :

    Fast and Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Smoother and Robocentric Voxels


    Contributors:
    Liu, Jun (author) / Zhang, Yunzhou (author) / Zhao, Xiaoyu (author) / He, Zhengnan (author) / Liu, Wei (author) / Lv, Xiangren (author)

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    Publication date :

    2024-10-01


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    3398475 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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