FAST-LIO: A Fast, Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Package by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Filter

By Wei Xu, Fu Zhang. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020

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This letter presents a computationally efficient and robust LiDAR-inertial odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR feature points with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterated extended Kalman filter to allow robust navigation in fast-motion, noisy or cluttered environments where degeneration occurs. To lower the computation load in the presence of a large number of measurements, we present a new formula to compute the Kalman gain. The new formula has computation load depending on the state dimension instead of the measurement dimension. The proposed method and its implementation are tested in various indoor and outdoor environments. In all tests, our method produces reliable navigation results in real-time: running on a quadrotor onboard computer, it fuses more than 1200 effective feature points in a scan and completes all iterations of an iEKF step within 25 ms. Our codes are open-sourced on Github.1

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Geology

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In Aerospace Engineering

  1. Fu Zhang
  2. Jiarong Lin
  3. Dongjiao He
  4. Wei Xu
  5. Yixi Cai
  6. Wei Xu

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

  1. Jiarong Lin
  2. Fu Zhang

In Geology

  1. Fu Zhang
  2. Jiarong Lin
  3. Dongjiao He
  4. Wei Xu
  5. Yixi Cai
  6. Wei Xu

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