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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) allows mobile robots to navigate without external positioning systems or pre-existing maps. Radar is emerging as a valuable sensing tool, especially in vision-obstructed environments, as it is…

Lifelong SLAM considers long-term operation of a robot where already mapped locations are revisited many times in changing environments. As a result, traditional graph-based SLAM approaches eventually become extremely slow due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Gerhard Kurz , Matthias Holoch , Peter Biber

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 paper proposes a 2-D autonomous exploration and mapping framework for LiDAR-based SLAM mobile robots, designed to address the major challenges on low-cost platforms, including process instability, map drift, and increased risks of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muhua Zhang , Lei Ma , Ying Wu , Kai Shen , Yongkui Sun , Henry Leung

We address the problem of autonomous exploration and mapping for a mobile robot using visual inputs. Exploration and mapping is a well-known and key problem in robotics, the goal of which is to enable a robot to explore a new environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Xiangyang Zhi , Xuming He , Sören Schwertfeger

Mapping expansive regions is an arduous and often times incomplete when performed by a single agent. In this paper we illustrate an extension of \texttt{Full SLAM} \cite{Dellaert06ijrr} and \cite{dong}, which ensures smooth maps with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Karthik Paga , Joe Phaneuf , Adam Driscoll , David Evans

Vision-based Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (VSLAM) is a mature problem in Robotics. Most VSLAM systems are feature based methods, which are robust and present high accuracy, but yield sparse maps with limited application for further…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Juan Jose Tarrio , Claus Smitt , Sol Pedre

Accurate estimation of the environment structure simultaneously with the robot pose is a key capability of autonomous robotic vehicles. Classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms rely on the static world assumption to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Mina Henein , Gerard Kennedy , Viorela Ila , Robert Mahony

We consider the problem of autonomous mobile robot exploration in an unknown environment, taking into account a robot's coverage rate, map uncertainty, and state estimation uncertainty. This paper presents a novel exploration framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jinkun Wang , Fanfei Chen , Yewei Huang , John McConnell , Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a foundational component in robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems. With the rising focus on spatial AI in recent years, combining SLAM with semantic understanding has become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jisang Yoo , Gyeongjin Kang , Hyun-kyu Ko , Hyeonwoo Yu , Eunbyung Park

Decentralized visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a powerful tool for multi-robot applications in environments where absolute positioning systems are not available. Being visual, it relies on cameras, cheap, lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Titus Cieslewski , Siddharth Choudhary , Davide Scaramuzza

Continual learning poses a fundamental challenge for neural systems, which often suffer from catastrophic forgetting when exposed to sequential tasks. Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs), despite their interpretability and efficiency, are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Igor Urbanik , Paweł Gajewski

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

RatSLAM is a rat hippocampus-inspired visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework capable of generating semi-metric topological representations of indoor and outdoor environments. Whisker-RatSLAM is a 6D extension of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Oliver Struckmeier , Kshitij Tiwari , Mohammed Salman , Martin J. Pearson , Ville Kyrki

Mobile robots require comprehensive scene understanding to operate effectively in diverse environments, enriched with contextual information such as layouts, objects, and their relationships. Although advances like neural radiation fields…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiawei Hou , Wenhao Guan , Longfei Liang , Jianfeng Feng , Xiangyang Xue , Taiping Zeng

Although Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been an active research topic for decades, current state-of-the-art methods still suffer from instability or inaccuracy due to feature insufficiency or its inherent estimation drift,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yang Lyu , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Liu Liu , Muqing Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

The brain has a great capacity for computation and efficient resolution of complex problems, far surpassing modern computers. Neuromorphic engineering seeks to mimic the basic principles of the brain to develop systems capable of achieving…

Deep learning based localization and mapping has recently attracted significant attention. Instead of creating hand-designed algorithms through exploitation of physical models or geometric theories, deep learning based solutions provide an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Changhao Chen , Bing Wang , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Robots require a semantic understanding of their surroundings to operate in an efficient and explainable way in human environments. In the literature, there has been an extensive focus on object labeling and exhaustive scene graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Shreyas Kousik , Rita Cucchiara , Marco Pavone

Mobile robots in large-scale indoor environments, such as hospitals and logistics centers, require accurate 3D spatial representations. However, 3D maps consume substantial memory, making it difficult to maintain complete map data within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Huichang Yun , Seungho Yoo