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EllipseLIO is an Adaptive LiDAR Inertial Odometry Approach with an Ellipsoid Representation

ROS2 Humble

Build

mkdir -p ~/colcon_ws/src
cd ~/colcon_ws/src
git clone git@github.com:v4rl-ucy/ellipselio.git
cd ..
colcon build --packages-select ellipselio --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release --symlink-install
source ~/colcon_ws/install/setup.bash

Run with a config file

ros2 launch ellipselio ellipselio_standalone.launch.py config_file:=<config_file_name>
ros2 bag play <rosbag_file_name>

:pencil: Citation

If you use EllipseLIO please cite our preprint on arXiv

@article{border2026ellipselio,
   author = {Border, Rowan and Chli, Margarita},
   journal = {arXiv},
   title = {{EllipseLIO}: Adaptive {LiDAR} Inertial Odometry with an Ellipsoid Representation},
   url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21150},
   year = {2026}
}

:pray: Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the authors of FAST-LIO2, IKFoM, and i-Octree for open-sourcing their work, which made the development of EllipseLIO possible.

:mailbox: Contact information

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact

• Rowan Border :envelope: rborder dot robots at gmail dot com