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Versatile and adaptive semantic understanding would enable autonomous systems to comprehend and interact with their surroundings. Existing fixed-class models limit the adaptability of indoor mobile and assistive autonomous systems. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Christina Kassab , Matias Mattamala , Lintong Zhang , Maurice Fallon

Accurate and robust localization and mapping are essential components for most autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a SLAM system for building globally consistent maps, called PIN-SLAM, that is based on an elastic and compact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yue Pan , Xingguang Zhong , Louis Wiesmann , Thorbjörn Posewsky , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Modern intelligent and autonomous robotic applications often require robots to have more information about their environment than that provided by traditional occupancy grid maps. For example, a robot tasked to perform autonomous semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tobias Zaenker , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

This paper presents the development and evaluation of a medical service robot equipped with 3D LiDAR and advanced localization capabilities for use in hospital environments. The robot employs LiDAR-based Simultaneous Localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sayat Ibrayev , Arman Ibrayeva , Bekzat Amanov , Serik Tolenov

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

Biologically inspired algorithms for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) such as RatSLAM have been shown to yield effective and robust robot navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments. One drawback however is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Ozan Çatal , Wouter Jansen , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt , Jan Steckel

In autonomous robotics, a significant challenge involves devising robust solutions for Active Collaborative SLAM (AC-SLAM). This process requires multiple robots to cooperatively explore and map an unknown environment by intelligently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Muhammad Farhan Ahmed , Vincent Frémont , Isabelle Fantoni

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

This paper presents a comprehensive overview of exploration strategies utilized in both 2D and 3D environments, focusing on autonomous multi-robot systems designed for building exploration and fire detection. We explore the limitations of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ankit Shaw

In addition to environmental perception sensors such as cameras, radars, etc. in the automatic driving system, the external environment of the vehicle is perceived, in fact, there is also a perception sensor that has been silently dedicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Han Lei , Baoming Wang , Zuwei Shui , Peiyuan Yang , Penghao Liang

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…

Semantic mapping is the task of providing a robot with a map of its environment beyond the open, navigable space of traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms by attaching semantics to locations. The system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 David Balaban , Harshavardhan Jagannathan , Henry Liu , Justin Hart

Sensing is an integral part of 6G and beyond systems, providing exceptional environmental perception along with communication. Radio frequency (RF)-based sensing often relies on simplified geometric assumptions (e.g., point scatterers or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Xuhong Li , Erik Leitinger , Fredrik Tufvesson , Florian Meyer

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a crucial role in enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate previously unknown environments. Semantic SLAM mostly extends visual SLAM, leveraging the higher density information available to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Aduen Benjumea , Andrew Bradley , Alexander Rast , Matthias Rolf

Aerial navigation in GPS-denied, indoor environments, is still an open challenge. Drones can perceive the environment from a richer set of viewpoints, while having more stringent compute and energy constraints than other autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ni Wang , Ozan Catal , Tim Verbelen , Matthias Hartmann , Bart Dhoedt

Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the fundamental problems in autonomous mobile robots where a robot needs to reconstruct a previously unseen environment while simultaneously localising itself with respect to the map.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tin Lai

This research explores the integration of indoor Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with Augmented Reality (AR) to enhance situational awareness, improving safety in hazardous or emergency situations. The main contribution of this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Michael D. Friske

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) estimates agents' trajectories and constructs maps, and localization is a fundamental kernel in autonomous machines at all computing scales, from drones, AR, VR to self-driving cars. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Qiang Liu , Zishen Wan , Bo Yu , Weizhuang Liu , Shaoshan Liu , Arijit Raychowdhury

Combining Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) estimation and dynamic scene modelling can highly benefit robot autonomy in dynamic environments. Robot path planning and obstacle avoidance tasks rely on accurate estimations of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Jun Zhang , Mina Henein , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila

We present a fast, scalable, and accurate Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system that represents indoor scenes as a graph of objects. Leveraging the observation that artificial environments are structured and occupied by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Akash Sharma , Wei Dong , Michael Kaess