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arxiv: 2605.07412 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-08 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

Tracking Large-scale Shared Bikes with Inertial Motion Learning in GNSS Blocked Environments

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keywords inertial navigationshared bikesmixture of expertsGNSS denied environmentspedaling calibrationwheel speed estimationtrajectory trackingurban canyons
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The pith

Bicycle mechanical constraints combined with mixture-of-experts learning allow accurate inertial tracking of shared bikes in GNSS-blocked areas.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to establish that low-cost inertial sensors, enhanced by bike-specific mechanical knowledge and a specialized neural architecture, can provide reliable position tracking for shared bikes even when satellite signals are unavailable. This would matter because current solutions either drift over time or require expensive additional hardware that cannot scale to city-wide bike fleets. By modeling how pedaling motions translate into wheel speeds through the bike's gears and using multiple expert networks to handle varying conditions, the system achieves dynamic calibration and uncertainty estimates. Real-world tests on DiDi platform data confirm meaningful gains over standard methods.

Core claim

By integrating the intrinsic relationship between a rider's periodic pedaling behaviors and acceleration variations—derived from the mechanical transmission between pedal and rear wheel—with a mixture-of-experts model that captures shared representations and uses a gating mechanism for weighting, the framework enables uncertainty-aware trajectory estimation and dynamic wheel speed calibration, leading to at least 12% accuracy improvement over baselines with wheel speed errors below 0.5 m/s at the 95th percentile in real-world riding data.

What carries the argument

Mixture-of-experts model with gating mechanism, integrated with pedaling-acceleration to wheel-speed mapping from bicycle mechanical transmission for dynamic calibration.

If this is right

  • Supports deployment of tracking systems on large shared bike fleets using only inexpensive inertial sensors.
  • Reduces reliance on visual or LiDAR sensors that are impractical for mass deployment.
  • Provides uncertainty-aware estimates that can improve overall trajectory reliability in urban environments.
  • Offers a way to mitigate cumulative drifts typical in pure inertial navigation through periodic mechanical calibration.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar pedaling-based calibration could apply to other human-powered vehicles with comparable drive systems.
  • The approach might reduce the need for frequent GPS fixes, conserving energy in battery-powered trackers.
  • Accurate tracking without satellites could enable better fleet management and theft recovery in dense cities.

Load-bearing premise

That the periodic pedaling-acceleration patterns can be reliably mapped to wheel speed via the bike's mechanical transmission across diverse riders, bikes, and road conditions without the model overfitting to specific training data.

What would settle it

Collecting new riding data from riders with significantly different pedaling styles or bikes with altered gear ratios and checking if the 95th-percentile wheel speed error exceeds 0.5 m/s or the accuracy gain falls below 12%.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.07412 by (2) DiDi Company, (3) Lancaster University), Chunwei Yang (2), Feng Liu (1), Guobin Wu (2), Kejia Li (1), Qiang Ni (3), Qun Li (2), Ruipeng Gao (1) ((1) Beijing Jiaotong University, Zhiwei Yang (2).

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Satellite signals may be blocked or even unavailable in many bike [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed inertial tracking framework for shared [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Model architecture comparison between the conventional multi-head [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Illustration of task-specific gating and top-2 expert fusion in MTIM [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Overall architecture of the MTIMNet. An encoder extracts features [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Demonstration of the pedal action and one-way clutch mechanism. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Calculation process of pedalling cycles. From top to bottom: forward [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: The MWI and autocorrelation sequences of forward accelerations in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Top view of the Customized Dataset collection area. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: ATE and AYE for different methods on the Customized Dataset. The MTIMNet model outperforms baselines on both test-seen and test-unseen sets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Example trajectories produced by different models. Results from the MTIMNet model are closer to the ground truth. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Comparison of MTIMNet with the best baseline in terms of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Task-expert analysis of the proposed MTIMNet. (a) Average gating [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Performance comparison of MTIMNet with different model structures [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Performance of pseudo wheel speed estimation under different riding [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Comparison of pseudo wheel speed estimation with RTK velocity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_18.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Although Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide a general solution for bike tracking outdoors, there still exist complex riding environments where only inertial navigation systems work, such as urban canyons. Despite decades of research, localization using only low-cost inertial sensors still faces challenges such as cumulative drifts and poor robustness caused by filtering methods. Furthermore, sensors such as visual and LiDAR could provide reliable measurements, but they are not suitable for large-scale deployment. In this paper, we propose an inertial tracking framework that integrates bicycle mechanical constraints with a mixture-of-experts model. Specifically, we leverage multiple expert modules to capture shared representations and weight them through the gating mechanism, thus improving multi-task learning performance and enabling uncertainty-aware trajectory estimation. Furthermore, based on the mechanical transmission between the pedal and the rear wheel of a bike, we explore the intrinsic relationship between the rider's periodic pedalling behaviors and acceleration variations, and convert such patterns into bike's wheel speed for dynamic calibration. Experiments with real-world riding data from shared bikes of the DiDi ride-hailing platform demonstrate that our system improves the accuracy of baselines by at least 12%, with wheel speed errors below 0.5 m/s at 95-percentile.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes an inertial tracking framework for shared bikes in GNSS-blocked environments (e.g., urban canyons) that fuses bicycle mechanical constraints—specifically, converting periodic pedaling-acceleration patterns into wheel speed via the assumed fixed pedal-to-rear-wheel transmission ratio—with a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model using a gating mechanism for multi-task learning and uncertainty-aware trajectory estimation. On real-world DiDi ride-hailing data, it claims at least 12% accuracy improvement over baselines and 95th-percentile wheel-speed error below 0.5 m/s.

Significance. If the performance claims and generalization hold after proper validation, the work could enable scalable, hardware-light bike localization for urban mobility platforms by leveraging existing mechanical properties instead of vision or LiDAR sensors. The integration of domain-specific constraints into an MoE architecture is a constructive approach to reducing inertial drift, though the absence of ablations and diversity analysis limits assessment of its broader impact.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central performance claims (≥12% accuracy gain and wheel-speed error <0.5 m/s at 95th percentile) are reported without any description of model architecture details, training protocol, validation splits, number of rides/riders, baseline implementations, error bars, or ablation studies. This absence is load-bearing because the soundness of the quantitative results cannot be verified from the provided text.
  2. [Method (dynamic calibration)] Dynamic calibration component: The mapping from pedaling-acceleration patterns to wheel speed rests on the assumption of a constant, known mechanical transmission ratio and that acceleration variations are dominated by pedaling (rather than road bumps, braking, or coasting). No stratification, ablation, or cross-bike/rider/surface testing is described to support generalization, which directly underpins the dynamic calibration and overall accuracy claims.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Method] Clarify the precise mathematical formulation of the MoE gating network and how uncertainty is propagated into the final trajectory estimate.
  2. [Experiments] Add a table or figure summarizing dataset statistics (number of rides, total distance, rider/bike diversity) to support the generalization claims.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and positive view of the work's potential impact. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to improve clarity and provide additional supporting analyses.

read point-by-point responses
  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central performance claims (≥12% accuracy gain and wheel-speed error <0.5 m/s at 95th percentile) are reported without any description of model architecture details, training protocol, validation splits, number of rides/riders, baseline implementations, error bars, or ablation studies. This absence is load-bearing because the soundness of the quantitative results cannot be verified from the provided text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, constrained by length, omits these specifics. The full manuscript details the mixture-of-experts architecture and gating mechanism in the Methods section, the training protocol and data splits in the Experiments section, baseline implementations with quantitative comparisons, and reports performance with error metrics. We will revise the abstract to concisely reference the real-world DiDi dataset scale, key methodological components, and presence of supporting analyses while adhering to length limits. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method (dynamic calibration)] Dynamic calibration component: The mapping from pedaling-acceleration patterns to wheel speed rests on the assumption of a constant, known mechanical transmission ratio and that acceleration variations are dominated by pedaling (rather than road bumps, braking, or coasting). No stratification, ablation, or cross-bike/rider/surface testing is described to support generalization, which directly underpins the dynamic calibration and overall accuracy claims.

    Authors: The fixed transmission ratio assumption follows from the uniform mechanical design of the DiDi shared-bike fleet. We acknowledge the lack of explicit stratification and cross-condition testing in the current version. In the revision we will add an ablation study that stratifies results across rider groups, surface types, and riding conditions (e.g., braking vs. steady pedaling) and include a sensitivity analysis on the transmission-ratio assumption to better substantiate generalization. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper's framework derives wheel speed from periodic pedaling patterns via the bike's mechanical transmission ratio, an independent physical constraint rather than a quantity defined in terms of the output or fitted by construction. The mixture-of-experts model learns representations for multi-task trajectory estimation from real-world DiDi riding data, which constitutes standard supervised learning without the predictions reducing to inputs by definition. No self-citation load-bearing steps, uniqueness theorems imported from authors, or ansatzes smuggled via citation appear in the provided text. The reported accuracy gains rest on empirical evaluation against baselines on external real-world rides, rendering the derivation self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on standard inertial-navigation assumptions plus learned model parameters; no new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (2)
  • Mixture-of-experts and gating parameters
    Weights of expert networks and gating mechanism are fitted during training on ride data.
  • Pedaling-to-wheel-speed mapping coefficients
    Scaling or conversion factors derived from observed acceleration patterns.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Bicycle mechanical transmission between pedal and rear wheel produces repeatable acceleration patterns usable for wheel-speed estimation
    Invoked to justify dynamic calibration from pedaling behavior.
  • domain assumption Low-cost inertial sensors provide sufficient signal for learned fusion to mitigate cumulative drift
    Core premise of the inertial tracking framework.

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