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This paper presents a set of novel scan-matching techniques for vehicle pose estimation using automotive radar measurements. The proposed approach modifies the Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) -- a state-of-the-art scan-matching SLAM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Martijn Heller , Nikita Petrov , Alexander Yarovoy

Accurate lane localization and lane change detection are crucial in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems for safer and more efficient trajectory planning. Conventional localization devices such as Global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhensong Wei , Chao Wang , Peng Hao , Matthew Barth

Advancements in lighting systems and photodetectors provide opportunities to develop viable alternatives to conventional communication and sensing technologies, especially in the vehicular industry. Most of the studies that propose visible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Hisham Abuella , Md Zobaer Islam , Russ Messenger , John F. O'Hara , Sabit Ekin

For autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) deployed in suburban neighborhoods and other human-centric environments the problem of localization remains a fundamental challenge. There are well established methods for localization with GPS, lidar,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Andrew J. Kramer , Christoffer Heckman

Detecting vehicles with strong robustness and high efficiency has become one of the key capabilities of fully autonomous driving cars. This topic has already been widely studied by GPU-accelerated deep learning approaches using image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Sanqing Qu , Guang Chen , Canbo Ye , Fan Lu , Fa Wang , Zhongcong Xu , Yixin Ge

Self-driving vehicles have the potential to reduce accidents and fatalities on the road. Many production vehicles already come equipped with basic self-driving capabilities, but have trouble following lanes in adverse lighting and weather…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Michael Khalfin , Jack Volgren , Matthew Jones , Luke LeGoullon , Joshua Siegel , Chan-Jin Chung

The development of cooperative vehicle safety (CVS) applications, such as collision warnings, turning assistants, and speed advisories, etc., has received great attention in the past few years. Accurate vehicular localization is essential…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kai Liu , Hock Beng Lim

In this paper, we introduce a new uplink visible light indoor positioning system that estimates the position of the users in the network-side of a visible light communications (VLC) system. This technique takes advantage of the diffuse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Hamid Hosseinianfar , Mohammad Noshad , Maite Brandt-Pearce

To address the challenge of autonomous UGV localization in GNSS-denied off-road environments,this study proposes a matching-based localization method that leverages BEV perception image and satellite map within a road similarity space to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zhenping Sun , Chuang Yang , Yafeng Bu , Bokai Liu , Jun Zeng , Xiaohui Li

Mobile robots and autonomous vehicles are often required to function in environments where critical position estimates from sensors such as GPS become uncertain or unreliable. Single image visual place recognition (VPR) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Connor Malone , Ankit Vora , Thierry Peynot , Michael Milford

Localization is a critical technology in autonomous driving, encompassing both topological localization, which identifies the most similar map keyframe to the current observation, and metric localization, which provides precise spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ze Huang , Zhongyang Xiao , Mingliang Song , Longan Yang , Hongyuan Yuan , Li Sun

Autonomous driving is an important trend of the automotive industry. The continuous research towards this goal requires a precise reference vehicle state estimation under all circumstances in order to develop and test autonomous vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Eduardo Sánchez Morales , Michael Botsch , Bertold Huber , Andrés García Higuera

Vision-based sensors have shown significant performance, accuracy, and efficiency gain in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems in recent years. In this regard, Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ali Tourani , Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Holger Voos

Autonomous valet parking is a specific application for autonomous vehicles. In this task, vehicles need to navigate in narrow, crowded and GPS-denied parking lots. Accurate localization ability is of great importance. Traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Tong Qin , Tongqing Chen , Yilun Chen , Qing Su

Currently, self-driving cars rely greatly on the Global Positioning System (GPS) infrastructure, albeit there is an increasing demand for alternative methods for GPS-denied environments. One of them is known as place recognition, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Avelino Forechi , Thiago Oliveira-Santos , Claudine Badue , Alberto F. De Souza

LADARs mounted on mobile platforms produce a wealth of precise range data on the surrounding objects and vehicles. The challenge we address is to infer from these raw LADAR data the location and orientation of nearby vehicles. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Daniel D. Morris , Regis Hoffman , Paul Haley

In this paper, we investigate an integrated visible light positioning and communication (VLPC) system with a single LED-lamp. First, by leveraging the fact that the VLC channel model is a function of the receiver's location, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shuai Ma , Ruixin Yang , Bing Li , Yongyan Chen , Hang Li , Youlong Wu , Majid Safari , Shiyin Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The integration of Optical Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (OIRSs) into Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems is gaining momentum as a valid alternative to RF technologies, harnessing the existing lighting infrastructures and the vast…

The abstract discusses the significance of Visible Light Communication (VLC) as an efficient and cost-effective solution in the era of green technology. VLC not only provides illumination but also high-speed data transmission through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Vailet Hikmat Faraj Al Khattat , Siti Barirah Ahmad Anas , Abdu Saif

When a vehicle observes another one, the two vehicles' poses are correlated by this spatial relative observation, which can be used in cooperative localization for further increasing localization accuracy and precision. To use spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Xiaotong Shen , Hans Andersen , Wei Kang Leong , Hai Xun Kong , Marcelo H. Ang , Daniela Rus