RoNIN: Robust Neural Inertial Navigation in the Wild: Benchmark, Evaluations, and New Methods
This work addresses inertial navigation for human motion tracking, providing a foundational benchmark and methods to advance data-driven research in this domain.
The paper tackles the problem of estimating positions and orientations from IMU sensor data by introducing a new benchmark with over 40 hours of data from 100 human subjects and novel neural architectures, achieving significant improvements for challenging motion cases.
This paper sets a new foundation for data-driven inertial navigation research, where the task is the estimation of positions and orientations of a moving subject from a sequence of IMU sensor measurements. More concretely, the paper presents 1) a new benchmark containing more than 40 hours of IMU sensor data from 100 human subjects with ground-truth 3D trajectories under natural human motions; 2) novel neural inertial navigation architectures, making significant improvements for challenging motion cases; and 3) qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the competing methods over three inertial navigation benchmarks. We will share the code and data to promote further research.