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Mobile robots require basic information to navigate through an environment: they need to know where they are (localization) and they need to know where they are going. For the latter, robots need a map of the environment. Using sensors of a…

Applications · Statistics 2007-09-14 Anita Araneda , Stephen E. Fienberg , Alvaro Soto

The main contribution of this paper is a new submap joining based approach for solving large-scale Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problems. Each local submap is independently built using the local information through solving a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

In this paper, we will demonstrate how Manhattan structure can be exploited to transform the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem, which is typically solved by a nonlinear optimization over feature positions, into a model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Armon Shariati , Bernd Pfrommer , Camillo J. Taylor

Mobile robots depend on maps for localization, planning, and other applications. In indoor scenarios, there is often lots of clutter present, such as chairs, tables, other furniture, or plants. While mapping this clutter is important for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zhenpeng He , Jiawei Hou , Sören Schwertfeger

This paper is a survey work for a bigger project for designing a Visual SLAM robot to generate 3D dense map of an unknown unstructured environment. A lot of factors have to be considered while designing a SLAM robot. Sensing method of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Adheen Ajay , D. Venkataraman

Simultaneous mapping and localization (SLAM) in an real indoor environment is still a challenging task. Traditional SLAM approaches rely heavily on low-level geometric constraints like corners or lines, which may lead to tracking failure in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xueyang Kang , Shunying Yuan

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), i.e., the reconstruction of the environment represented by a (3D) map and the concurrent pose estimation, has made astonishing progress. Meanwhile, large scale applications aiming at the data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Vincent Ress , Wei Zhang , David Skuddis , Norbert Haala , Uwe Soergel

2D LiDAR SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is widely used in indoor environments due to its stability and flexibility. However, its mapping procedure is usually operated by a joystick in static environments, while indoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanjing Ye , Guangcheng Chen , Weinan Chen , Li He , Yisheng Guan , Hong Zhang

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a crucial role in autonomous systems. Traditional SLAM methods, based on static environment assumptions, struggle to handle complex dynamic environments. Recent dynamic SLAM systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Haolan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Chenghao Li , Ruidong Yang , Yonghoon Ji , Nak Young Chong

Visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) based on planar features has found widespread applications in fields such as environmental structure perception and augmented reality. However, current research faces challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Xinggang Hu , Yanmin Wu , Mingyuan Zhao , Linghao Yang , Xiangkui Zhang , Xiangyang Ji

Graph-based representations such as Scene Graphs enable localization in structured indoor environments by matching a locally observed graph, constructed from sensor data, to a prior map. This process is particularly challenging in…

Traditional approaches to stereo visual SLAM rely on point features to estimate the camera trajectory and build a map of the environment. In low-textured environments, though, it is often difficult to find a sufficient number of reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Ruben Gomez-Ojeda , David Zuñiga-Noël , Francisco-Angel Moreno , Davide Scaramuzza , Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

Modern LiDAR-SLAM (L-SLAM) systems have shown excellent results in large-scale, real-world scenarios. However, they commonly have a high latency due to the expensive data association and nonlinear optimization. This paper demonstrates that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jianhao Jiao , Yilong Zhu , Haoyang Ye , Huaiyang Huang , Peng Yun , Linxin Jiang , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

Integrating multiple LiDAR sensors can significantly enhance a robot's perception of the environment, enabling it to capture adequate measurements for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Indeed, solid-state LiDARs can bring in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Device localization and radar-like mapping are at the heart of integrated sensing and communication, enabling not only new services and applications, but can also improve communication quality with reduced overheads. These forms of sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Yu Ge , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Hyowon Kim , Jukka Talvitie , Sunwoo Kim , Lennart Svensson , Mikko Valkama , Henk Wymeersch

Mapping and self-localization in unknown environments are fundamental capabilities in many robotic applications. These tasks typically involve the identification of objects as unique features or landmarks, which requires the objects both to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Beipeng Mu , Shih-Yuan Liu , Liam Paull , John Leonard , Jonathan How

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system typically employ vision-based sensors to observe the surrounding environment. However, the performance of such systems highly depends on the ambient illumination conditions. In scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Pedro P. B. de Gusmao , Bing Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Modern robotic systems sense the environment geometrically, through sensors like cameras, lidar, and sonar, as well as semantically, often through visual models learned from data, such as object detectors. We aim to develop robots that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Kevin Doherty , David Baxter , Edward Schneeweiss , John Leonard

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) play a vital role in autonomous robotics. Robotic platforms are often resource-constrained, and this limitation motivates resource-efficient SLAM implementations. While sparse visual SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Christiaan J. Müller , Corné E. van Daalen
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