Radar-Inertial Odometry with Online Spatio-Temporal Calibration via Continuous-Time IMU Modeling
Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a robust alternative to vision- and LiDAR-based odometry in challenging conditions such as low light, fog, featureless environments, or in adverse weather. However, many existing RIO approaches assume known radar-IMU extrinsic calibration or rely on sufficient motion excitation for online extrinsic estimation, while temporal misalignment between sensors is often neglected or treated independently. In this work, we present a RIO framework that performs joint online spatial and temporal calibration within a factor-graph optimization formulation, based on continuous-time modeling of inertial measurements using uniform cubic B-splines. The proposed continuous-time representation of acceleration and angular velocity accurately captures the asynchronous nature of radar-IMU measurements, enabling reliable convergence of both the temporal offset and extrinsic calibration parameters, without relying on scan matching, target tracking, or environment-specific assumptions.
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