TRaIL-Odom: Tightly Coupled Continuous Time Radar-IMU-LiDAR Odometry with Adaptive Doppler Weighting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03561v1
• Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:51 GMT
• Title: TRaIL-Odom: Tightly Coupled Continuous Time Radar-IMU-LiDAR Odometry with Adaptive Doppler Weighting
• Abstract summary: Existing radar-LiDAR fusion methods rely on fixed residual weights.<n>We propose two degeneracy-aware Doppler reweighting modules within a tightly coupled Radar-IMU-LiDAR odometry framework.<n>Across 13 evaluated sequences, TRaIL-Odom achieves state-of-the-art overall performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Existing radar-LiDAR fusion methods rely on fixed residual weights, even though the informativeness of radar Doppler and LiDAR geometry is scan- and direction-dependent, leading to uniform radar weighting that misallocates Doppler information across translational directions. To address this limitation, we propose two degeneracy-aware Doppler reweighting modules within a tightly coupled Radar-IMU-LiDAR odometry framework: per-point radar reweighting and scan-wise radar gain scheduling. Since geometric degeneracy is directional, we first identify weak translational directions from the LiDAR geometry and reweight individual radar Doppler constraints based on their alignment with the weak subspace. We further adjust the overall radar contribution using LiDAR geometric anisotropy such that radar is emphasized when LiDAR observability is poor and suppressed when LiDAR constraints are already reliable. Across 13 evaluated sequences, TRaIL-Odom achieves state-of-the-art overall performance, with clear advantages in geometrically degenerate scenes. In ablation experiments on three degenerate sequences, combining the two adaptive weighting modules reduces RMSE ATE and RTE by 86.0% and 78.5% relative to the fixed-weight baseline. We make our code and an accompanying dataset publicly available at https://github.com/ChiyunNoh/TRaIL-Odom.

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