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This paper develops an efficient implementation of the ensemble Kalman filter based on a modified Cholesky decomposition for inverse covariance matrix estimation. This implementation is named EnKF-MC. Background errors corresponding to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Elias D. Nino , Adrian Sandu , Xinwei Deng

The traditional Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) systems rely on the assumption of a static environment and fail to accurately estimate the system's location when dynamic objects are present in the background. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yaoming Zhuang , Pengrun Jia , Zheng Liu , Li Li , Chengdong Wu , Wei cui , Zhanlin Liu

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) has become a standard methodology for state estimation in high-dimensional systems, yet its various stochastic and deterministic formulations often appear conceptually disconnected. In this paper, a unified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Jin Won Kim

Many modern simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques rely on sparse landmark-based maps due to their real-time performance. However, these techniques frequently assert that these landmarks are fixed in position over time,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Samuel Bateman , Kyle Harlow , Christoffer Heckman

Monocular visual SLAM enables 3D reconstruction from internet video and autonomous navigation on resource-constrained platforms, yet suffers from scale drift, i.e., the gradual divergence of estimated scale over long sequences. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yuchen Wu , Jiahe Li , Xiaohan Yu , Lina Yu , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

The three-dimensional CMKF-U with only position measurements is extended to solve the nonlinear tracking problem with range-rate measurements in this paper. A pseudo measurement is constructed by the product of range and range-rate…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Lianmeng Jiao , Quan Pan , Yan Liang , Feng Yang

This paper proposes an algorithm that combines Fast Moving Horizon Parameter Estimation and Model Predictive Control subject to an observability constraint designed to ensure a lower bound on the performance of the parameter estimator.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Emilien Flayac , Girish Nair , Iman Shames

This paper presents a novel dense optical-flow algorithm to solve the monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem for ground or aerial robots. Dense optical flow can effectively provide the ego-motion of the vehicle while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yonhon Ng , Hongdong Li , Jonghyuk Kim

For SLAM to be safely deployed in unstructured real world environments, it must possess several key properties that are not encompassed by conventional benchmarks. In this paper we show that SLAM commutativity, that is, consistency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alejandro Fontan , Javier Civera , Michael Milford

Environment perception is a crucial ability for robot's interaction into an environment. One of the first steps in this direction is the combined problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). A new method, called G-SLAM, is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Nikos Zikos , Vassilios Petridis

Autonomous exploration to build a map of an unknown environment is a fundamental robotics problem. However, the quality of the map directly influences the quality of subsequent robot operation. Instability in a simultaneous localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Mohit Deshpande , Richard Kim , Dhruva Kumar , Jong Jin Park , Jim Zamiska

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. While point-based SLAM methods provide accurate camera localization, the generated maps lack semantic information. On the other hand, state of the art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Yasir Latif , Trung Pham , Niko Suenderhauf , Ian Reid

State-of-the-art ensemble Kalman filtering (EnKF) algorithms require incorporating localization techniques to cope with the rank deficiency and the inherited spurious correlations in their error covariance matrices. Localization techniques…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Boujemaa Ait-El-Fquih , Ibrahim Hoteit

Visual odometry and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) has been studied as one of the most important tasks in the areas of computer vision and robotics, to contribute to autonomous navigation and augmented reality systems. In case…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Seongwook Yoon , Jaehyun Kim , Sanghoon Sull

Due to the state trajectory-independent features of invariant Kalman filtering (InEKF), it has attracted widespread attention in the research community for its significantly improved state estimation accuracy and convergence under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Xiaoyu Ye , Fujun Song , Zongyu Zhang , Rui Zhang , Qinghua Zeng

Aiming at the application environment of indoor mobile robots, this paper proposes a sparse object-level SLAM algorithm based on an RGB-D camera. A quadric representation is used as a landmark to compactly model objects, including their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ziwei Liao , Wei Wang , Xianyu Qi , Xiaoyu Zhang , Lin Xue , Jianzhen Jiao , Ran Wei

This article introduces a new algorithm for nonlinear state estimation based on deterministic sigma point and EKF linearized framework for priori mean and covariance respectively. This method reduces the computation cost of UKF about 50%…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Milad Behvandi , Mohammad Azam Khosravi , Amir Abolfazl Suratgar

In this paper, we use 2D object detections from multiple views to simultaneously estimate a 3D quadric surface for each object and localize the camera position. We derive a SLAM formulation that uses dual quadrics as 3D landmark…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Lachlan Nicholson , Michael Milford , Niko Sünderhauf

This work presents new results and understanding of the Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) for inverse problems. In particular, using a Lagrangian dual perspective we show that EnKF can be derived from the sample average approximation (SAA) of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 C G Krishnanunni , Jonathan Wittmer , Tan Bui-Thanh , Quoc P. Nguyen

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and mapping) is one of the most challenging problems for mobile platforms and there is a huge amount of modern SLAM algorithms. The choice of the algorithm that might be used in every particular problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Anton Filatov , Artyom Filatov , Kirill Krinkin , Baian Chen , Diana Molodan