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However, pre-integration is needed by applying measurements from inertial measurement units. Additionally, both approaches only provide discrete fusion results. In this work, we address this problem and present a uniform B-spline-based continuous fusion approach, which can fuse motion measurements from an inertial measurement unit and pose data from other localization systems robustly, accurately and efficiently. In our continuous fusion approach, an axis-angle is applied as our rotation representation method and uniform B-spline as the back-end optimization base. Evaluation results performed on the real world data show that our approach provides accurate, robust and continuous fusion results, which again supports our continuous fusion concept.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21155004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,23]],"date-time":"2021-07-23T10:31:44Z","timestamp":1627036304000},"page":"5004","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Continuous Fusion of Motion Data Using an Axis-Angle Rotation Representation with Uniform B-Spline"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9828-5790","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haohao","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut of Measurement and Control Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engler-Bunte-Ring 21, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany"}]},{"given":"Johannes","family":"Beck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Atlatec GmbH, Haid-und-Neu-Stra\u00dfe 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4414-5722","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Martin","family":"Lauer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut of Measurement and Control Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engler-Bunte-Ring 21, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4165-2075","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christoph","family":"Stiller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut of Measurement and Control Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engler-Bunte-Ring 21, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Yun, S., Lee, Y.J., and Sung, S. 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