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Consistent maps are key for most autonomous mobile robots, and they often use SLAM approaches to build such maps. Loop closures via place recognition help to maintain accurate pose estimates by mitigating global drift, and are thus key for…

We present a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm that is based on radio signals and the association of specular multipath components (MPCs) with geometric features. Especially in indoor scenarios, robust localization from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Erik Leitinger , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch , Klaus Witrisal , Fredrik Tufvesson , Moe Z. Win

Highly dynamic environments, with moving objects such as cars or humans, can pose a performance challenge for LiDAR SLAM systems that assume largely static scenes. To overcome this challenge and support the deployment of robots in real…

Object-level Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), which incorporates semantic information for high-level scene understanding, faces challenges of under-constrained optimization due to sparse observations. Prior work has introduced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yang Jiao , Yiding Qiu , Henrik I. Christensen

Accurate localization is an essential technology for the flexible navigation of robots in large-scale environments. Both SLAM-based and map-based localization will increase the computing load due to the increase in map size, which will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yixiao Feng , Zhou Jiang , Yongliang Shi , Yunlong Feng , Xiangyu Chen , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

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

Vehicles with prolonged autonomous missions have to maintain environment awareness by simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Closed loop correction is substituted by interpolation in rigid body transformation space in order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Paavo Nevalainen , Parisa Movahedi , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund , Jukka Heikkonen

Dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is crucial for robotics and augmented reality applications. However, current methods are often hampered by the non-volumetric or implicit way they represent a scene. This work introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Nikhil Keetha , Jay Karhade , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Gengshan Yang , Sebastian Scherer , Deva Ramanan , Jonathon Luiten

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using automotive radar sensors can provide enhanced sensing capabilities for autonomous systems. In SLAM applications, with a greater requirement for the environment map, information on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shuai Sun , Christopher Gilliam , Kamran Ghorbani , Glenn Matthews , Beth Jelfs

Navigation and exploration within unknown environments are typical examples in which simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are applied. When mobile agents deploy only range sensors without bearing information, the agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-10 Matteo Marcantoni , Bayu Jayawardhana , Kerstin Bunte

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) provides user tracking and environmental mapping capabilities, enabling communication systems to gain situational awareness. Advanced communication networks with ultra-wideband, multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xi Yang , Jing Xu , Tao Du , Shi Jin

Recent work has shown impressive localization performance using only images of ground textures taken with a downward facing monocular camera. This provides a reliable navigation method that is robust to feature sparse environments and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Kyle M. Hart , Brendan Englot , Ryan P. O'Shea , John D. Kelly , David Martinez

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

Dynamic environments that include unstructured moving objects pose a hard problem for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) performance. The motion of rigid objects can be typically tracked by exploiting their texture and geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Huayan Zhang , Tianwei Zhang , Tin Lun Lam , Sethu Vijayakumar

A robust nonlinear stochastic observer for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is proposed using the available uncertain measurements of angular velocity, translational velocity, and features. The proposed observer is posed on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Marium Tawhid , Ajay Singh Ludher , Hashim A. Hashim

This paper presents a method for robust optimization for online incremental Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Due to the NP-Hardness of data association in the presence of perceptual aliasing, tractable (approximate) approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Daniel McGann , John G. Rogers , Michael Kaess

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical task for autonomous navigation. However, due to the computational complexity of SLAM algorithms, it is very difficult to achieve real-time implementation on low-power platforms.We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Runze Liu , Jianlei Yang , Yiran Chen , Weisheng Zhao

LiDAR sensors are a powerful tool for robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in unknown environments, but the raw point clouds they produce are dense, computationally expensive to store, and unsuited for direct use by downstream…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Adam Dai , Greg Lund , Grace Gao

Lidar SLAM plays a significant role in mobile robot navigation and high-definition map construction. However, existing methods often face a trade-off between localization accuracy and system robustness in scenarios with a high proportion of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yongxin Shao , Aihong Tan , Binrui Wang , Yinlian Jin , Licong Guan , Peng Liao

In this paper, we present an integrated solution to memory-efficient environment modeling by an autonomous mobile robot equipped with a laser range-finder. Majority of nowadays approaches to autonomous environment modeling, called…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Miroslav Kulich , Viktor Kozák , Libor Přeučil