TIO-Former: Ultra-Lightweight 6-Directional ToF-Inertial Odometry for Nano-UAVs via a Streaming Causal Transformer
Autonomous nano-UAV navigation requires accurate ego-motion estimation under stringent size, weight, power, and computing (SWaP-C) constraints, where visual sensors and LiDARs exceed payload limits, optical flow degrades in low-texture scenes, and inertial-only state estimation is susceptible to accumulated drift. Whil...