RaDiVe: Robust 4D Radar Odometry with Distance-Bounded NDT and Velocity-Discrepancy Point Uncertainty

Published July 31, 2026 · Category: Robotics

Overview

arXiv:2607.28045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in 4D radar enable robust perception in adverse weather; however, the inherent sparsity, noise, and limited positional precision of radar point clouds pose significant challenges for registration-based odometry. In this letter, we propose RaDiVe, a 4D radar odometry framework designed to improve the accuracy and robustness of radar point-cloud registration. We introduce a distance-bounded Normal Distributions Transform (NDT), which improves optimization stability and computational efficiency by restricting the correspondence search to near-distance voxel pairs. To mitigate measurement ambiguity, we propose a velocity-discrepancy point uncertainty model that weights each input 4D radar point according to the discrepancy between its measured Doppler radial velocity and the radial velocity predicted from the estimated ego-velocity. Furthermore, we incorporate Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based surface point extraction via implicit neural mapping to construct a geometrically consistent and noise-filtered local submap. Evaluations across multiple public datasets demonstrate that RaDiVe outperforms existing 4D radar odometry baselines by 44.4% in translational Absolute Trajectory Error (ATE) and 21.3% in rotational ATE on average, while maintaining real-time performance. The source code will be made publicly available to the robotics community: https://github.com/to-be-open-sourced.

Source

Originally published at arxiv.org.

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