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Consider a mobile robot tasked with localizing targets at unknown locations by obtaining relative measurements. The observations can be bearing or range measurements. How should the robot move so as to localize the targets and minimize the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Selim Engin , Volkan Isler

This letter presents a cooperative relative multi-robot localization design and experimental study. We propose a flexible Monte Carlo approach leveraging a particle filter to estimate relative states. The estimation can be based on…

Concurrently estimating the 6-DOF pose of multiple cameras or robots---cooperative localization---is a core problem in contemporary robotics. Current works focus on a set of mutually observable world landmarks and often require inbuilt…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Vikas Dhiman , Julian Ryde , Jason J. Corso

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

Self-localization is a fundamental capability that mobile robot navigation systems integrate to move from one point to another using a map. Thus, any enhancement in localization accuracy is crucial to perform delicate dexterity tasks. This…

In recent years, the mobile robot has been the concern of numerous researcher since they are widely applied in various fields of daily life. This paper applies a virtual robot operating system (ROS) platform to develop a localization system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Anh-Tu Nguyen , Cong-Thanh Vu

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

Accurate localization represents a fundamental challenge in robotic navigation. Traditional methodologies, such as Lidar or QR-code based systems, suffer from inherent scalability and adaptability con straints, particularly in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Dominik Brämer , Diana Kleingarn , Oliver Urbann

This article addresses the localization problem in robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection at airports and provides a systematic evaluation of different methods to solve it. The robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zhirui Sun , Weinan Chen , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

This article studies the problem of distributed formation control for multiple robots by using onboard ultra wide band (UWB) distance and inertial odometer (IO) measurements. Although this problem has been widely studied, a fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kunrui Ze , Wei Wang , Shuoyu Yue , Guibin Sun , Kexin Liu , Jinhu Lü

Ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning has emerged as a low-cost and dependable localization solution for multiple use cases, from mobile robots to asset tracking within the Industrial IoT. The technology is mature and the scientific literature…

This paper addresses the Kidnapped Robot Problem (KRP), a core localization challenge of relocalizing a robot in a known map without prior pose estimate upon localization loss or at SLAM initialization. For this purpose, a passive 2-D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Muhua Zhang , Lei Ma , Ying Wu , Kai Shen , Deqing Huang , Henry Leung

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 considers a radio-frequency (RF)-based simultaneous localization and source-seeking (SLASS) problem in multi-robot systems, where multiple robots jointly localize themselves and an RF source using distance-only measurements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Ke Xu , Rui Zhang , He Chen

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…

In this work, we investigate swarm self-clustering, where robots autonomously organize into spatially coherent groups using only local sensing and decision-making, without external commands, global positioning, or inter-robot communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sweksha Jain , Rugved Katole , Leena Vachhani

Visual robot self-localization is a fundamental problem in visual robot navigation and has been studied across various problem settings, including monocular and sequential localization. However, many existing studies focus primarily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mitsuki Yoshida , Ryogo Yamamoto , Daiki Iwata , Kanji Tanaka

Navigation of a mobile robot is conditioned on the knowledge of its pose. In observer-based localisation configurations its initial pose may not be knowable in advance, leading to the need of its estimation. Solutions to the problem of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Alexandros Filotheou

This paper studies the measurement scheduling problem for a group of N mobile robots moving on a flat surface that are preforming cooperative localization (CL). We consider a scenario in which due to the limited on-board resources such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qi Yan , Li Jiang , Solmaz Kia

Localization is a fundamental capability for autonomous robots, enabling them to operate effectively in dynamic environments. In Robocon 2025, accurate and reliable localization is crucial for improving shooting precision, avoiding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Naren Medarametla , Sreejon Mondal