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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a process of concurrent estimation of the vehicle's pose and feature locations with respect to a frame of reference. This paper proposes a computationally cheap geometric nonlinear SLAM filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is essential for mobile robotics, enabling autonomous navigation in dynamic, unstructured outdoor environments without relying on external positioning systems. These environments pose significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Fabian Schmidt , Constantin Blessing , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

Visual-inertial SLAM is crucial in various fields, such as aerial vehicles, industrial robots, and autonomous driving. The fusion of camera and inertial measurement unit (IMU) makes up for the shortcomings of a signal sensor, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Jiaming He , Mingrui Li , Yangyang Wang , Hongyu Wang

Robust, fast, and accurate human state - 6D pose and posture - estimation remains a challenging problem. For real-world applications, the ability to estimate the human state in real-time is highly desirable. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Dorian F. Henning , Christopher Choi , Simon Schaefer , Stefan Leutenegger

We describe an application of the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) design methodology to the scan matching SLAM problem. We review the theoretical foundations of the IEKF and its practical interest of guaranteeing robustness to poor…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Martin Barczyk , Silvère Bonnabel , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

Navigation solutions suitable for cases when both autonomous robot's pose (\textit{i.e}., attitude and position) and its environment are unknown are in great demand. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) fulfills this need by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy

This paper solves the classical problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in a fashion which avoids linearized approximations altogether. Based on creating virtual synthetic measurements, the algorithm uses a linear time-…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Feng Tan , Winfried Lohmiller , Jean-Jacques Slotine

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

This letter re-visits the problem of visual-inertial navigation system (VINS) and presents a novel filter design we dub the multi state constraint equivariant filter (MSCEqF, in analogy to the well known MSCKF). We define a symmetry group…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Alessandro Fornasier , Pieter van Goor , Eren Allak , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

In this paper, we present a tightly-coupled visual-inertial object-level multi-instance dynamic SLAM system. Even in extremely dynamic scenes, it can robustly optimise for the camera pose, velocity, IMU biases and build a dense 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yifei Ren , Binbin Xu , Christopher L. Choi , Stefan Leutenegger

Accurate and robust object state estimation enables successful object manipulation. Visual sensing is widely used to estimate object poses. However, in a cluttered scene or in a tight workspace, the robot's end-effector often occludes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Kuan-Ting Yu , Alberto Rodriguez

Recent deep learning based visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods have made significant progress. However, how to make full use of visual information as well as better integrate with inertial measurement unit (IMU) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiongfeng Peng , Zhihua Liu , Weiming Li , Ping Tan , SoonYong Cho , Qiang Wang

Monocular cameras coupled with inertial measurements generally give high performance visual inertial odometry. However, drift can be significant with long trajectories, especially when the environment is visually challenging. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Yanjun Cao , Giovanni Beltrame

Conventional visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms often fail under rapid motion, low illumination, or abrupt lighting transitions due to motion blur and limited dynamic range. Event cameras mitigate these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Şebnem Sarıözkan , Hürkan Şahin , Olaya Álvarez-Tuñón , Erdal Kayacan

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Liu , Haoxuan Xu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Zhengyang Zhang , Peiyu Zhuang , Pengting Luo , Houde Liu

We present LINS, a lightweight lidar-inertial state estimator, for real-time ego-motion estimation. The proposed method enables robust and efficient navigation for ground vehicles in challenging environments, such as feature-less scenes,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Chao Qin , Haoyang Ye , Christian E. Pranata , Jun Han , Shuyang Zhang , Ming Liu

While dense visual SLAM methods are capable of estimating dense reconstructions of the environment, they suffer from a lack of robustness in their tracking step, especially when the optimisation is poorly initialised. Sparse visual SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Tristan Laidlow , Michael Bloesch , Wenbin Li , Stefan Leutenegger

We present AB-VINS, a different kind of visual-inertial SLAM system. Unlike most popular VINS methods which only use hand-crafted techniques, AB-VINS makes use of three different deep neural networks. Instead of estimating sparse feature…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Nathaniel Merrill , Guoquan Huang

Visual inertial odometry and SLAM algorithms are widely used in various fields, such as service robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. Most of the SLAM algorithms are based on assumption that landmarks are static. However, in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Seungwon Song , Hyungtae Lim , Alex Junho Lee , Hyun Myung

Visual SLAM is a cornerstone technique in robotics, autonomous driving and extended reality (XR), yet classical systems often struggle with low-texture environments, scale ambiguity, and degraded performance under challenging visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Zhuohao Yan , Chunxi Xia , Shaoquan Feng