Uncertainty-Driven Radar-Inertial Fusion for Instantaneous 3D Ego-Velocity Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14294v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:10:39 GMT
• Title: Uncertainty-Driven Radar-Inertial Fusion for Instantaneous 3D Ego-Velocity Estimation
• Authors: Prashant Kumar Rai, Elham Kowsari, Nataliya Strokina, Reza Ghabcheloo,
• Abstract summary: We present a method for estimating ego-velocity in autonomous navigation by integrating high-resolution imaging radar with an inertial measurement unit.<n>We employ a neural network to process complex-valued raw radar data and estimate instantaneous linear ego-velocity along with its associated uncertainty.<n>This uncertainty-aware velocity estimate is then integrated with inertial measurement unit data using an Extended Kalman Filter.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present a method for estimating ego-velocity in autonomous navigation by integrating high-resolution imaging radar with an inertial measurement unit. The proposed approach addresses the limitations of traditional radar-based ego-motion estimation techniques by employing a neural network to process complex-valued raw radar data and estimate instantaneous linear ego-velocity along with its associated uncertainty. This uncertainty-aware velocity estimate is then integrated with inertial measurement unit data using an Extended Kalman Filter. The filter leverages the network-predicted uncertainty to refine the inertial sensor's noise and bias parameters, improving the overall robustness and accuracy of the ego-motion estimation. We evaluated the proposed method on the publicly available ColoRadar dataset. Our approach achieves significantly lower error compared to the closest publicly available method and also outperforms both instantaneous and scan matching-based techniques.

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