Abstract
Deep inertial sequence learning has shown promising odometric resolution over model-based approaches for trajectory estimation in GPS-denied environments. However, existing neural inertial dead-reckoning frameworks are not suitable for real-Time deployment on ultra-resource-constrained (URC) devices due to substantial memory, power, and compute bounds. Current deep inertial odometry techniques also suffer from gravity pollution, high-frequency inertial disturbances, varying sensor orientation, heading rate singularity, and failure in altitude estimation. In this paper, we introduce TinyOdom, a framework for training and deploying neural inertial models on URC hardware. TinyOdom exploits hardware and quantization-Aware Bayesian neural architecture search (NAS) and a temporal convolutional network (TCN) backbone to train lightweight models targetted towards URC devices. In addition, we propose a magnetometer, physics, and velocity-centric sequence learning formulation robust to preceding inertial perturbations. We also expand 2D sequence learning to 3D using a model-free barometric g-h filter robust to inertial and environmental variations. We evaluate TinyOdom for a wide spectrum of inertial odometry applications and target hardware against competing methods. Specifically, we consider four applications: pedestrian, animal, aerial, and underwater vehicle dead-reckoning. Across different applications, TinyOdom reduces the size of neural inertial models by 31× to 134× with 2.5m to 12m error in 60 seconds, enabling the direct deployment of models on URC devices while still maintaining or exceeding the localization resolution over the state-of-The-Art. The proposed barometric filter tracks altitude within ±0.1m and is robust to inertial disturbances and ambient dynamics. Finally, our ablation study shows that the introduced magnetometer, physics, and velocity-centric sequence learning formulation significantly improve localization performance even with notably lightweight models.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-32 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 7 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-09-14Acknowledgements: The research reported in this paper was sponsored in part by: the CONIX Research Center, one of six centers in JUMP, a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) program sponsored by DARPA; by the IoBT REIGN Collaborative Research Alliance funded by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) under Cooperative Agreement W911NF-17-2-0196; by the NIH mHealth Center for Discovery, Optimization and Translation of Temporally-Precise Interventions (mDOT) under award 1P41EB028242; by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under awards # OAC-1640813 and CNS-1822935; and, by and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) through its Sensor Innovation research program.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.