Pushing Radar Odometry Beyond the Pavement: Current Capabilities and Challenges
Radar offers unique advantages for localization in unstructured environments, including robustness to weather, lighting, and airborne particulates. While most prior work has studied radar odometry in urban, largely planar settings, its performance in off-road environments remains less understood. In this paper, we investigate the potential of radar for off-road odometry estimation and identify key challenges that arise from full $SE(3)$ vehicle motion, terrain-induced ground returns, and sparse or unstable features. To address these issues, we introduce two simple baselines: Radar-KISSICP, which applies motion compensation to generate 3D-aware radar pointclouds, and Radar-IMU, which leverages IMU preintegration to stabilize scan matching. Experiments on the Great Outdoors (GO) dataset demonstrate that these baselines improve trajectory estimation in challenging routes and provide a reference point for future development of radar odometry in off-road robotics.
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