Dead Reckoning is Still Alive!

Many drivers are highly curious today about the Autonomous Vehicles (AV) dream. Will this dream come true, and when? One of the core technology that needs to be implemented in AV is the inertial navigation system (INS). These systems integrate many sensors together in what we called "sensor fusion" schemes. These sensors include LiDAR, cameras, GPS receivers, Radars, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and many more. The general sensor fusion scheme integrates all the sensors together using a very common algorithm, named the "Kalman Filter", to fuse all sensors optimally (in a mean-squared-error sense).