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Robust long-term visual localization in complex industrial environments is critical for mobile robotic systems. Existing approaches face limitations: handcrafted features are illumination-sensitive, learned features are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yicheng Lin , Yunlong Jiang , Xujia Jiao , Bin Han

Accurate pose and velocity estimation is essential for effective spatial task planning in robotic manipulators. While centralized sensor fusion has traditionally been used to improve pose estimation accuracy, this paper presents a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mahboubeh Zarei , Robin Chhabra , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

The high dimensionality and computational constraints associated with filtering problems in large-scale geophysical applications are particularly challenging for the Particle Filter (PF). Approximate but efficient methods such as the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-12-23 Sylvain Robert , Hans R. Künsch

The ability of robots to estimate their location is crucial for a wide variety of autonomous operations. In settings where GPS is unavailable, measurements of transmissions from fixed beacons provide an effective means of estimating a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Charles Schaff , David Yunis , Ayan Chakrabarti , Matthew R. Walter

The field of collaborative robotics and human-robot interaction often focuses on the prediction of human behaviour, while assuming the information about the robot setup and configuration being known. This is often the case with fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Justinas Miseikis , Inka Brijacak , Saeed Yahyanejad , Kyrre Glette , Ole Jakob Elle , Jim Torresen

Multi-robot navigation in unknown, structurally constrained, and GPS-denied environments presents a fundamental trade-off between global strategic foresight and local tactical agility, particularly under limited communication. Centralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zihao Mao , Yunheng Wang , Yunting Ji , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Indoor localization is one of the crucial enablers for deployment of service robots. Although several successful techniques for indoor localization have been proposed, the majority of them relies on maps generated from data gathered with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Federico Boniardi , Abhinav Valada , Rohit Mohan , Tim Caselitz , Wolfram Burgard

This paper represents the novel high precision localization approach for Automated Driving (AD) relative to 3D map. The AD maps are not necessarily flat. Hence, the problem of localization is solved here in 3D. The vehicle motion is modeled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Koba Natroshvili , Kai Storr , Fabian Oboril , Kay-Ulrich Scholl

This research investigates decentralized control of mobile robots specifically for coverage problems. There are different approaches associated with decentralized control strategy for coverage control problems. We perform a comparative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Waqqas Ahmad

In this paper, we address the problem of controlling a network of mobile sensors so that a set of hidden states are estimated up to a user-specified accuracy. The sensors take measurements and fuse them online using an Information Consensus…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Charles Freundlich , Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos

Robot swarms offer significant potential for inspecting diverse infrastructure, ranging from bridges to space stations. However, effective inspection requires accurate robot localization, which demands substantial computational resources…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Sneha Ramshanker , Hungtang Ko , Radhika Nagpal

This paper investigates the task assignment problem for multiple dispersed robots constrained by limited communication range. The robots are initially randomly distributed and need to visit several target locations while minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Xiaoshan Bai , Weisheng Yan , Ming Cao , Jie Huang

Robot localization is a one of the most important problems in robotics. Most of the existing approaches assume that the map of the environment is available beforehand and focus on accurate metrical localization. In this paper, we address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-04-03 Bahram Behzadian , Pratik Agarwal , Wolfram Burgard , Gian Diego Tipaldi

This paper introduces a framework for state estimation on a humanoid robot platform using only common proprioceptive sensors and knowledge of leg kinematics. The presented approach extends that detailed in [1] on a quadruped platform by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Nicholas Rotella , Michael Bloesch , Ludovic Righetti , Stefan Schaal

The main goal of this project is that the basic EKF-based SLAM operation can be implemented sufficiently for estimating the state of the UGV that is operated in this real environment involving dynamic objects. Several problems in practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Roni Permana Saputra

In this study, we propose a novel visual localization approach to accurately estimate six degrees of freedom (6-DoF) poses of the robot within the 3D LiDAR map based on visual data from an RGB camera. The 3D map is obtained utilizing an…

This paper introduces a novel approach for modeling the dynamics of soft robots, utilizing a differentiable filter architecture. The proposed approach enables end-to-end training to learn system dynamics, noise characteristics, and temporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiao Liu , Shuhei Ikemoto , Yuhei Yoshimitsu , Heni Ben Amor

Rather than having each newly deployed robot create its own map of its surroundings, the growing availability of SLAM-enabled devices provides the option of simply localizing in a map of another robot or device. In cases such as multi-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Matthew Hanlon , Boyang Sun , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum

In the field of gas pipeline location, existing pipeline location methods mostly rely on pipeline location instruments. However, when faced with complex and curved pipeline scenarios, these methods often fail due to problems such as cable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yan Gao , Jiliang Wang , Minghan Wang , Xiaohua Chen , Demin Chen , Zhiyong Ren , Tian-Yun Huang

Decentralized Collaborative Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (C-SLAM) techniques often struggle to identify map overlaps due to significant viewpoint variations among robots. Motivated by recent advancements in 3D foundation models,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Benjamin Ramtoula , Daniele De Martini , Giovanni Beltrame