直接用原始雷达信号估速,提升恶劣环境下的定位精度。
UNRIO: Uncertainty-Aware Velocity Learning for Radar-Inertial Odometry

- 用未滤波的雷达I/Q信号直接估计自车速度
- 在IQ1M和ColoRadar数据集上相对位姿误差最低
- 适合雷达点云稀疏或频偏严重的场景
毫米波雷达在黑暗、灰尘和烟雾等视觉受限环境下具有鲁棒性,且可通过单帧多普勒测量直接约束自车速度,是视觉失效条件下里程计的理想传感器。然而,现有雷达-惯性里程计系统普遍依赖损失严重的雷达点云,其点云稀疏、集中在狭窄角度范围,且在高速下易出现混叠。本文提出直接从未经滤波的毫米波雷达I/Q信号中估计自车速度。利用4D雷达谱的基础模型,构建了将不确定性感知的速度预测与IMU数据融合的系统,采用不确定性加权滑动窗口位姿图,即使在存在混叠或视场不利的情况下仍能精确计算里程计。在公开基准数据集上的评估显示,所提系统UNRIO在多数序列上达到最低相对位姿误差,尤其在横向运动(IQ1M)和严重混叠多普勒(ColoRadar)场景中表现显著优于传统方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
mmWave radars are robust to darkness and occlusions such as dust and smoke, and can directly constrain ego-velocity from a single frame via Doppler measurements, making them attractive sensors for odometry in visually denied conditions. However, almost all existing radar-inertial odometry systems rely on lossy radar point clouds that are highly sparse, generally concentrated in a narrow angular band, and aliased at high speeds. We propose to instead estimate ego-velocity directly from unfiltered mmWave I/Q signals. Taking advantage of a foundation model for 4D radar spectrum, we develop a system that integrates uncertainty-aware velocity predictions with IMU measurements using an uncertainty-weighted sliding-window pose graph to accurately compute odometry even when provided radar data with aliasing or an unfavorable field of view. Evaluated on public benchmark datasets, our system, UNRIO, attains the lowest relative pose error on the majority of sequences across held-out environments, despite differing chirp configurations, motion patterns, and platforms with its strongest gains coming where point clouds fail most: lateral motion in IQ1M and heavily aliased Doppler in ColoRadar.
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