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Autonomous navigation is one of the key requirements for every potential application of mobile robots in the real-world. Besides high-accuracy state estimation, a suitable and globally consistent representation of the 3D environment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Simon Boche , Sebastián Barbas Laina , Stefan Leutenegger

When adapting Simultaneous Mapping and Localization (SLAM) to real-world applications, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, and augmented reality devices, its memory footprint and computing cost are the two main factors limiting the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Yeonsoo Park , Soohyun Bae

We present a dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that uses 3D Gaussians as a scene representation. Our approach enables interactive-time reconstruction and photo-realistic rendering from real-world single-camera RGBD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Vladimir Yugay , Yue Li , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

As an essential component of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), place recognition is crucial for robot navigation and autonomous driving. Existing methods often formulate visual place recognition as feature matching, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Active SLAM) involves the strategic planning and precise control of a robotic system's movement in order to construct a highly accurate and comprehensive representation of its surrounding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yizhen Yin , Yuhua Qi , Dapeng Feng , Hongbo Chen , Hongjun Ma , Jin Wu , Yi Jiang

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are fundamental building blocks for any autonomous robot navigating in unknown environments. The SLAM implementation heavily depends on the sensor modality employed on the mobile…

The environment of most real-world scenarios such as malls and supermarkets changes at all times. A pre-built map that does not account for these changes becomes out-of-date easily. Therefore, it is necessary to have an up-to-date model of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Min Zhao , Xin Guo , Le Song , Baoxing Qin , Xuesong Shi , Gim Hee Lee , Guanghui Sun

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with implicit neural representations has received extensive attention due to the expressive representation power and the innovative paradigm of continual learning. However, deploying such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Baicheng Li , Zike Yan , Dong Wu , Hanqing Jiang , Hongbin Zha

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a critical role in autonomous robotic systems, especially where accurate and reliable measurements are essential for navigation and sensing. In feature-based SLAM, the quantityand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haolan Zhang , Chenghao Li , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Lijun Wang , Nak Young Chong

Various autonomous applications rely on recognizing specific known landmarks in their environment. For example, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is an important technique that lays the foundation for many common tasks, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Maarten de Backer , Wouter Jansen , Dennis Laurijssen , Ralph Simon , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

In object-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), 6D object poses offer a compact representation of landmark geometry useful for downstream planning and manipulation tasks. However, measurement ambiguity then arises as objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Jiahui Fu , Qiangqiang Huang , Kevin Doherty , Yue Wang , John J. Leonard

The capability of a mobile robot to efficiently and safely perform complex missions is limited by its knowledge of the environment, namely the situation. Advanced reasoning, decision-making, and execution skills enable an intelligent agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Claudio Cimarelli , Ali Tourani , Holger Voos

In Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) problems, high-level landmarks have the potential to build compact and informative maps compared to traditional point-based landmarks. In this work, we focus on the parameterization of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Weikun Zhen , Huai Yu , Yaoyu Hu , Sebastian Scherer

The integration of cloud computing and edge computing is an effective way to achieve global consistent and real-time multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Cloud computing effectively solves the problem of limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xin Liu , Shuhuan Wen , Jing Zhao , Tony Z. Qiu , Hong Zhang

The existence of variable factors within the environment can cause a decline in camera localization accuracy, as it violates the fundamental assumption of a static environment in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Sabur Baidya

Multi-robot systems are an efficient method to explore and map an unknown environment. The simulataneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm is common for single robot systems, however multiple robots can share respective map data in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Henry Fielding Cappel

One of the major challenges of a real-time autonomous robotic system for construction monitoring is to simultaneously localize, map, and navigate over the lifetime of the robot, with little or no human intervention. Past research on…

Robots operating in dynamic environments face significant challenges due to the presence of moving agents and displaced objects. Traditional SLAM systems typically assume a static world or treat dynamic as outliers, discarding their…

Autonomous exploration for mapping unknown large scale environments is a fundamental challenge in robotics, with efficiency in time, stability against map corruption and computational resources being crucial. This paper presents a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Megha Maheshwari , Sadeigh Rabiee , He Yin , Martin Labrie , Hang Liu , Rajasimman Madhivanan

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein