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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, commonly known as SLAM, has been an active research area in the field of Robotics over the past three decades. For solving the SLAM problem, every robot is equipped with either a single sensor or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mubariz Zaffar , Shoaib Ehsan , Rustam Stolkin , Klaus McDonald Maier

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) has achieved great progress in the computer vision and robotics communities, and has been successfully used in many fields such as autonomous robot navigation and AR/VR. However, vSLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kaiqi Chen , Junhao Xiao , Jialing Liu , Qiyi Tong , Heng Zhang , Ruyu Liu , Jianhua Zhang , Arash Ajoudani , Shengyong Chen

The process of simultaneously mapping the environment in three dimensional (3D) space and localizing a moving vehicle's pose (orientation and position) is termed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). SLAM is a core task in robotics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-13 Trevor P. Drayton , Abdul A. Jaiyeola , Nazmul Hoque , Mikhayla Maurer , Hashim A. Hashim

We present a collaborative visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework for service robots. With an edge server maintaining a map database and performing global optimization, each robot can register to an existing map,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Ouyang , Xuesong Shi , Yujie Wang , Yuxin Tian , Yingzhe Shen , Dawei Wang , Peng Wang , Zhiqiang Cao

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms are frequently deployed to support a wide range of robotics applications, such as autonomous navigation in unknown environments, and scene mapping in virtual reality. Many of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chih-Yuan Chiu

We present a real-time semantic mapping approach for mobile vision systems with a 2D to 3D object detection pipeline and rapid data association for generated landmarks. Besides the semantic map enrichment the associated detections are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Thorsten Hempel , Ayoub Al-Hamadi

In recent decades, the field of robotic mapping has witnessed widespread research and development in LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging)-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques. In this paper, we review the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xiangdi Yue , Yihuan Zhang , Miaolei He

Nowadays, SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is considered by the Robotics community to be a mature field. Currently, there are many open-source systems that are able to deliver fast and accurate estimation in typical real-world…

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

LiDAR-based SLAM is a core technology for autonomous vehicles and robots. One key contribution of this work to 3D LiDAR SLAM and localization is a fierce defense of view-based maps (pose graphs with time-stamped sensor readings) as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 José Luis Blanco-Claraco

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical task in robotics, enabling systems to autonomously navigate and understand complex environments. Current SLAM approaches predominantly rely on geometric cues for mapping and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yongxu Wang , Xu Cao , Weiyun Yi , Zhaoxin Fan

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in large-scale, unknown, and complex subterranean environments is a challenging problem. Sensors must operate in off-nominal conditions; uneven and slippery terrains make wheel odometry…

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

Motivated by the tremendous progress we witnessed in recent years, this paper presents a survey of the scientific literature on the topic of Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM), also known as multi-robot SLAM. With…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Benjamin Ramtoula , Fang Wu , Giovanni Beltrame

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has wide robotic applications such as autonomous driving and unmanned aerial vehicles. Both computational efficiency and localization accuracy are of great importance towards a good SLAM system.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Chun-Lin Chen , Lihua Xie

This survey paper presents a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in the field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with a focus on the integration of symbolic representation of environment features. The paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Brandon Curtis Colelough

Where am I? This is one of the most critical questions that any intelligent system should answer to decide whether it navigates to a previously visited area. This problem has long been acknowledged for its challenging nature in simultaneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Loukas Bampis , Antonios Gasteratos

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

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been a hot research field in the past years. Against the backdrop of more affordable 3D LiDAR sensors, research on 3D LiDAR SLAM is becoming increasingly popular. Furthermore, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Ziqi Chai , Xiaoyu Shi , Yan Zhou , Zhenhua Xiong

Determining the position and orientation of a sensor vis-a-vis its surrounding, while simultaneously mapping the environment around that sensor or simultaneous localization and mapping is quickly becoming an important advancement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Joonas Lomps , Artjom Lind , Amnir Hadachi