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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

In recent decades, visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) has gained significant interest in both academia and industry. It estimates camera motion and reconstructs the environment concurrently using visual sensors on a moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Kunping Huang , Sen Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

To execute collaborative tasks in unknown environments, a robotic swarm needs to establish a global reference frame and locate itself in a shared understanding of the environment. However, it faces many challenges in real-world scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Shipeng Zhong , Yuhua Qi , Zhiqiang Chen , Jin Wu , Hongbo Chen , Ming Liu

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

Decentralized collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (C-SLAM) is essential to enable multirobot missions in unknown environments without relying on preexisting localization and communication infrastructure. This technology is…

With the wide penetration of smart robots in multifarious fields, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique in robotics has attracted growing attention in the community. Yet collaborating SLAM over multiple robots still remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Peng Huang , Liekang Zeng , Xu Chen , Ke Luo , Zhi Zhou , Shuai Yu

The capability of multi-robot SLAM approaches to merge localization history and maps from different observers is often challenged by the difficulty in establishing data association. Loop closure detection between perceptual inputs of…

An essential task for a multi-robot system is generating a common understanding of the environment and relative poses between robots. Cooperative tasks can be executed only when a vehicle has knowledge of its own state and the states of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 John McConnell , Yewei Huang , Paul Szenher , Ivana Collado-Gonzalez , Brendan Englot

The development of data innovation as of late and the expanded limit, has permitted the acquaintance of artificial vision connected with SLAM, offering ascend to what is known as Visual SLAM. The objective of this paper is to build up a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 V. I Mebin Jose , D. J Binoj

Joint optimization of poses and features has been extensively studied and demonstrated to yield more accurate results in feature-based SLAM problems. However, research on jointly optimizing poses and non-feature-based maps remains limited.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yingyu Wang , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang

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

Combining Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) estimation and dynamic scene modelling can highly benefit robot autonomy in dynamic environments. Robot path planning and obstacle avoidance tasks rely on accurate estimations of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Jun Zhang , Mina Henein , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila

Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) enables a robot team to achieve coordinated tasks by relying on a common map of the environment. Constructing a map by centralized processing of the robot observations is undesirable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hanwen Cao , Sriram Shreedharan , Nikolay Atanasov

In this paper, a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that eliminates the influence of moving objects in dynamic environments is proposed. This method utilizes the correlation between map points to separate points that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Weichen Dai , Yu Zhang , Ping Li , Zheng Fang , Sebastian Scherer

Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (CSLAM) is a critical capability for enabling multiple robots to operate in complex environments. Most CSLAM techniques rely on the transmission of low-level features for visual and…

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in mapping unknown spaces and aiding autonomous navigation. Virtually all state-of-the-art solutions today for 2D SLAM are designed for dense and accurate sensors such as laser…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hanzhi Zhou , Zichao Hu , Sihang Liu , Samira Khan

Visual understanding of 3D environments in real-time, at low power, is a huge computational challenge. Often referred to as SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping), it is central to applications spanning domestic and industrial…

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is emerging in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving, because a single camera is cheap and easy to install. Conventional monocular SLAM has two major challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jinkyu Lee , Muhyun Back , Sung Soo Hwang , Il Yong Chun

Efficient, accurate, and flexible relative localization is crucial in air-ground collaborative tasks. However, current approaches for robot relative localization are primarily realized in the form of distributed multi-robot SLAM systems…

This paper presents a novel approach to visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using multiple RGB-D cameras. The proposed method, Multicam-SLAM, significantly enhances the robustness and accuracy of SLAM systems by capturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shenghao Li , Luchao Pang , Xianglong Hu