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Equivariant Filter Design for Acoustic and Depth Aided Inertial Navigation Systems

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) navigating without GPS typically fuse inertial measurements with acoustic Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) velocities and pressure-derived depth. Posing the navigation state on a Lie group improves accuracy and consistency. However, state-of-the-art filters based on the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) append the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) biases as a Euclidean extension, which breaks the group-affine structure required for exact log-linear error dynamics, causing the reported covariance to degrade alongside the estimate. We apply the Tangent-Group (

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