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The Kalman Filter (KF) is a powerful mathematical tool widely used for state estimation in various domains, including Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). This paper presents an in-depth introduction to the Kalman Filter and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Gyubeom Im

Range-only Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (RO-SLAM) is of interest due to its practical applications in ultra-wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) localisation in terrestrial and aerial applications and acoustic beacon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yixiao Ge , Arthur Pearce , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

The Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) belongs to the class of iterative particle filtering methods and can be used for solving control--to--observable inverse problems. In this context, the EnKF is known as Ensemble Kalman Inversion (EKI). In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Dieter Armbruster , Michael Herty , Giuseppe Visconti

State estimation problems without absolute position measurements routinely arise in navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous ground vehicles, etc., whose proper operation relies on accurate state estimates and reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jianzhu Huai , Yukai Lin , Yuan Zhuang , Min Shi

We propose a keypoint-based object-level SLAM framework that can provide globally consistent 6DoF pose estimates for symmetric and asymmetric objects alike. To the best of our knowledge, our system is among the first to utilize the camera…

The widely-used Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) provides a straightforward recipe to estimate the mean and covariance of the state given all past measurements in a causal and recursive fashion. For a wide variety of applications, the EKF is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Stephanie Tsuei , Stefano Soatto , Paulo Tabuada , Mark B. Milam

This paper builds on recent work on Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) in the non-linear observer community, by framing the visual localisation and mapping problem as a continuous-time equivariant observer design problem on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony , Tarek Hamel , Jochen Trumpf

The main contribution of this paper is an invariant extended Kalman filter (EKF) for visual inertial navigation systems (VINS). It is demonstrated that the conventional EKF based VINS is not invariant under the stochastic unobservable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Teng Zhang , Kanzhi Wu , Daobilige Su , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

Recent advances in neural radiation fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian-based SLAM have achieved impressive localization accuracy and high-quality dense mapping in static scenes. However, these methods remain challenged in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenhua Wu , Chenpeng Su , Siting Zhu , Tianchen Deng , Jianhao Jiao , Guangming Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

In this paper, we study the back-end of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem in deforming environment, where robot localizes itself and tracks multiple non-rigid soft surface using its onboard sensor measurements. An…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jingwei Song , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

As autonomous systems increasingly rely on onboard sensing for localization and perception, the parallel tasks of motion planning and state estimation become more strongly coupled. This coupling is well-captured by augmenting the planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Kristoffer M. Frey , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

It holds great implications for practical applications to enable centimeter-accuracy positioning for mobile and wearable sensor systems. In this paper, we propose a novel, high-precision, efficient visual-inertial (VI)-SLAM algorithm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Patrick Geneva , James Maley , Guoquan Huang

This paper examines the global convergence problem of SLAM algorithms, an issue that faces topological obstructions. This is because the state-space of attitude dynamics is defined on a non-contractible manifold: the special orthogonal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Seyed Hamed Hashemi , Jouni Mattila

Object-level SLAM introduces semantic meaningful and compact object landmarks that help both indoor robot applications and outdoor autonomous driving tasks. However, the back end of object-level SLAM suffers from singularity problems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yutong Hu , Wei Wang

Navigation solutions suitable for cases when both autonomous robot's pose (\textit{i.e}., attitude and position) and its environment are unknown are in great demand. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) fulfills this need by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy

We introduce EC-SLAM, a real-time dense RGB-D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system leveraging Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). While recent NeRF-based SLAM systems have shown promising results, they have yet to fully exploit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Guanghao Li , Qi Chen , YuXiang Yan , Jian Pu

A geometric nonlinear observer algorithm for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) developed on the Lie group of \mathbb{SLAM}_{n}\left(3\right) is proposed. The presented novel solution estimates the vehicle's pose (i.e. attitude…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Hashim A. Hashim

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms perform visual-inertial estimation via filtering or batch optimization methods. Empirical evidence suggests that filtering algorithms are computationally faster, while optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Amay Saxena , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Joseph Menke , Ritika Shrivastava , Shankar Sastry

The SLAM problem is known to have a special property that when robot orientation is known, estimating the history of robot poses and feature locations can be posed as a standard linear least squares problem. In this work, we develop a SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Saurav Agarwal , Vikram Shree , Suman Chakravorty

We present a novel Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method that employs Gaussian Process (GP) based landmark (object) representations. Instead of conventional grid maps or point cloud registration, we model the environment on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ali Emre Balcı , Erhan Ege Keyvan , Emre Özkan