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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

Visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a key module of robotics and low-speed autonomous vehicles, which is usually limited by the high computation burden for practical applications. To this end, an innovative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Bingxiang Kang , Jie Zou , Guofa Li , Pengwei Zhang , Jie Zeng , Kan Wang , Jie Li

We address automotive odometry for low-speed driving and parking, where centimeter-level accuracy is required due to tight spaces and nearby obstacles. Traditional methods using inertial-measurement units and wheel encoders require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Luis Diener , Jens Kalkkuhl , Markus Enzweiler

(Visual) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains a fundamental challenge in enabling autonomous systems to navigate and understand large-scale environments. Traditional SLAM approaches struggle to balance efficiency and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tian Yi Lim , Boyang Sun , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum

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

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is critical to the implementation of autonomous driving. Most LiDAR-inertial SLAM algorithms assume a static environment, leading to unreliable localization in dynamic environments. Moreover, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhongyang Zhu , Junqiao Zhao , Kai Huang , Xuebo Tian , Jiaye Lin , Chen Ye

This paper proposes FAST-LIVO2: a fast, direct LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry framework to achieve accurate and robust state estimation in SLAM tasks and provide great potential in real-time, onboard robotic applications. FAST-LIVO2 fuses…

In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has emerged as a novel scene representation approach. However, existing vision-only 3D-GS methods often rely on hand-crafted heuristics for point-cloud densification and face challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Sheng Hong , Chunran Zheng , Yishu Shen , Changze Li , Fu Zhang , Tong Qin , Shaojie Shen

We propose GSO-SLAM, a real-time monocular dense SLAM system that leverages Gaussian scene representation. Unlike existing methods that couple tracking and mapping with a unified scene, incurring computational costs, or loosely integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiung Yeon , Seongbo Ha , Hyeonwoo Yu

We propose a framework for tightly-coupled lidar inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping, LIO-SAM, that achieves highly accurate, real-time mobile robot trajectory estimation and map-building. LIO-SAM formulates lidar-inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot , Drew Meyers , Wei Wang , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

LiDAR odometry can achieve accurate vehicle pose estimation for short driving range or in small-scale environments, but for long driving range or in large-scale environments, the accuracy deteriorates as a result of cumulative estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Lizhou Liao , Chunyun Fu , Binbin Feng , Tian Su

We present a lightweight magnetic field simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) approach for drift correction in odometry paths, where the interest is purely in the odometry and not in map building. We represent the past magnetic field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Manon Kok , Arno Solin

It is typically challenging for visual or visual-inertial odometry systems to handle the problems of dynamic scenes and pure rotation. In this work, we design a novel visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system called RD-VIO to handle both of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jinyu Li , Xiaokun Pan , Gan Huang , Ziyang Zhang , Nan Wang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

In this paper, we develop a robust efficient visual SLAM system that utilizes heterogeneous point and line features. By leveraging ORB-SLAM [1], the proposed system consists of stereo matching, frame tracking, local mapping, loop detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Xingxing Zuo , Xiaojia Xie , Yong Liu , Guoquan Huang

We present a real-time semantic mapping approach for mobile vision systems with a 2D to 3D object detection pipeline and rapid data association for generated landmarks. Besides the semantic map enrichment the associated detections are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Thorsten Hempel , Ayoub Al-Hamadi

Monocular visual odometry is a key technology in various autonomous systems. Traditional feature-based methods suffer from failures due to poor lighting, insufficient texture, and large motions. In contrast, recent learning-based dense SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Takayuki Kanai , Igor Vasiljevic , Vitor Guizilini , Kazuhiro Shintani

Odometer-aided visual-inertial SLAM systems typically have a good performance for navigation of wheeled platforms, while they usually suffer from degenerate cases before the first turning. In this paper, firstly we perform an observability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinxu Liu , Wei Gao , Zhanyi Hu

We propose a standalone monocular visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) initialization pipeline for autonomous space robots. Our method, a state-of-the-art factor graph optimization pipeline, extends Structure from Small…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Juan-Diego Florez , Mehregan Dor , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In order to facilitate long-term localization using a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm, careful feature selection can help ensure that reference points persist over long durations and the runtime and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Pranav Ganti , Steven L. Waslander

In the field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), researchers have always pursued better performance in terms of accuracy and time cost. Traditional algorithms typically rely on fundamental geometric elements in images to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhang Zhihe