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This paper presents range-based 6-DoF Monte Carlo SLAM with a gradient-guided particle update strategy. While non-parametric state estimation methods, such as particle filters, are robust in situations with high ambiguity, they are known to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Takumi Nakao , Kenji Koide , Aoki Takanose , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Hisashi Date

A geometric nonlinear observer algorithm for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) developed on the Lie group of \mathbb{SLAM}_{n}\left(3\right) is proposed. The presented novel solution estimates the vehicle's pose (i.e. attitude…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Hashim A. Hashim

We propose to integrate text objects in man-made scenes tightly into the visual SLAM pipeline. The key idea of our novel text-based visual SLAM is to treat each detected text as a planar feature which is rich of textures and semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Boying Li , Danping Zou , Daniele Sartori , Ling Pei , Wenxian Yu

In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled, multi-modal simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework, integrating an extensive set of sensors: IMU, cameras, multiple lidars, and Ultra-wideband (UWB) range measurements, hence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and Odometry are important systems for estimating the position of mobile devices, such as robots and cars, utilizing one or more sensors. Particularly in camera-based SLAM or Odometry,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sanghyun Park , Soohee Han

Monocular visual SLAM has become an attractive practical approach for robot localization and 3D environment mapping, since cameras are small, lightweight, inexpensive, and produce high-rate, high-resolution data streams. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hasnain Vohra , Maxim Bazik , Matthew Antone , Joseph Mundy , William Stephenson

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

Monocular vision-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is used for various purposes due to its advantages in cost, simple setup, as well as availability in the environments where navigation with satellites is not effective.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Young-Hee Lee , Chen Zhu , Gabriele Giorgi , Christoph Günther

Localization in a battlefield environment is increasingly challenging as GPS connectivity is often denied or unreliable, and physical deployment of anchor nodes across wireless networks for localization can be difficult in hostile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ganesh Sapkota , Sanjay Madria

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

Visual SLAM has regained attention due to its ability to provide perceptual capabilities and simulation test data for Embodied AI. However, traditional SLAM methods struggle to meet the demands of high-quality scene reconstruction, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Fan Zhu , Yifan Zhao , Ziyu Chen , Biao Yu , Hui Zhu

This paper presents GeoFlow-SLAM, a robust and effective Tightly-Coupled RGBD-inertial SLAM for legged robotics undergoing aggressive and high-frequency motions.By integrating geometric consistency, legged odometry constraints, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Tingyang Xiao , Xiaolin Zhou , Liu Liu , Wei Sui , Wei Feng , Jiaxiong Qiu , Xinjie Wang , Zhizhong Su

Feature detection is a common yet time-consuming module in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) implementations, which are increasingly deployed on power-constrained platforms, such as drones. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ruiqi Ye , Mikel Luján

The fusion of camera sensor and inertial data is a leading method for ego-motion tracking in autonomous and smart devices. State estimation techniques that rely on non-linear filtering are a strong paradigm for solving the associated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Arno Solin , Rui Li , Andrea Pilzer

An accurate and computationally efficient SLAM algorithm is vital for modern autonomous vehicles. To make a lightweight the algorithm, most SLAM systems rely on feature detection from images for vision SLAM or point cloud for laser-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Waqas Ali , Peilin Liu , Rendong Ying , Zheng Gong

The paper posits a computationally-efficient algorithm for multi-class facial image classification in which images are constrained with translation, rotation, scale, color, illumination and affine distortion. The proposed method is divided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 A Vinay , Aviral Joshi , Hardik Mahipal Surana , Harsh Garg , K N BalasubramanyaMurthy , S Natarajan

Recent advances in neural radiation fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian-based SLAM have achieved impressive localization accuracy and high-quality dense mapping in static scenes. However, these methods remain challenged in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenhua Wu , Chenpeng Su , Siting Zhu , Tianchen Deng , Jianhao Jiao , Guangming Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

In recent decades, visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) has gained significant interest in both academia and industry. It estimates camera motion and reconstructs the environment concurrently using visual sensors on a moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Kunping Huang , Sen Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Monocular SLAM algorithms perform robustly when observing rigid scenes, however, they fail when the observed scene deforms, for example, in medical endoscopy applications. We present DefSLAM, the first monocular SLAM capable of operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jose Lamarca , Shaifali Parashar , Adrien Bartoli , J. M. M. Montiel

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu