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Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Active SLAM) involves the strategic planning and precise control of a robotic system's movement in order to construct a highly accurate and comprehensive representation of its surrounding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yizhen Yin , Yuhua Qi , Dapeng Feng , Hongbo Chen , Hongjun Ma , Jin Wu , Yi Jiang

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability in autonomous navigation, but in order to scale SLAM to the setting of "lifelong" SLAM, particularly under memory or computation constraints, a robot must be able to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Kevin J. Doherty , David M. Rosen , John J. Leonard

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays an important role in many robotics fields, including social robots. Many of the available visual SLAM methods are based on the assumption of a static world and struggle in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mobin Habibpour , Alireza Nemati , Ali Meghdari , Alireza Taheri , Shima Nazari

Digital maps will revolutionize our experience of perceiving and navigating indoor environments. While today we rely only on the representation of the outdoors, the mapping of indoors is mainly a part of the traditional SLAM problem where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Gianni Pasolini , Antonio Clemente , Raffaele D'Errico , Davide Dardari

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

In recent years, we have observed a clear trend in the rapid rise of autonomous vehicles, robotics, virtual reality, and augmented reality. The core technology enabling these applications, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM),…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Jie Tang , Shaoshan Liu , Jean-Luc Gaudiot

In recent decades, the field of robotic mapping has witnessed widespread research and development in LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging)-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques. In this paper, we review the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xiangdi Yue , Yihuan Zhang , Miaolei He

In embedded systems, robots must perceive and interpret their environment efficiently to operate reliably in real-world conditions. Visual Semantic SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) enhances standard SLAM by incorporating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Calvin Galagain , Martyna Poreba , François Goulette

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the task of building a map representation of an unknown environment while at the same time using it for positioning. A probabilistic interpretation of the SLAM task allows for incorporating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Manon Kok , Arno Solin , Thomas B. Schön

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) serves as a basis for indoor cleaning, navigation, and many other useful applications in both industry and household. From a series of LiDAR scans, it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Keisuke Sugiura , Hiroki Matsutani

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability in autonomous navigation, but memory and computational limits make long-term application of common SLAM techniques impractical; a robot must be able to determine what…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Kevin Doherty , Alan Papalia , Yewei Huang , David Rosen , Brendan Englot , John Leonard

Robots operating in the open world encounter various different environments that can substantially differ from each other. This domain gap also poses a challenge for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) being one of the fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Niclas Vödisch , Daniele Cattaneo , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a key component of autonomous systems operating in environments that require a consistent map for reliable localization. SLAM has been a widely studied topic for decades with most of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 J. Jorge , T. Barros , C. Premebida , M. Aleksandrov , D. Goehring , U. J. Nunes

The LiDAR and inertial sensors based localization and mapping are of great significance for Unmanned Ground Vehicle related applications. In this work, we have developed an improved LiDAR-inertial localization and mapping system for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Kangcheng Liu

In this paper, we propose an integrated framework for the autonomous robotic exploration in indoor environments. Specially, we present a hybrid map, named Semantic Road Map (SRM), to represent the topological structure of the explored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Chaoqun Wang , Delong Zhu , Teng Li , Max Q. -H. Meng , Clarence De. Silva

In the realm of robotics, achieving simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is paramount for autonomous navigation, especially in challenging environments like texture-less structures. This paper proposed a factor-graph-based model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Manh Do Duc , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Minh DoNgoc , Xiem HoangVan

In this paper, we propose an novel implementation of a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system based on a monocular camera from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using Depth prediction performed with Capsule Networks (CapsNet),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Sunil Prakash , Gaelan Gu

Decentralized collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (C-SLAM) is essential to enable multirobot missions in unknown environments without relying on preexisting localization and communication infrastructure. This technology is…

In this paper, we propose an optimization based SLAM approach to simultaneously optimize the robot trajectory and the occupancy map using 2D laser scans (and odometry) information. The key novelty is that the robot poses and the occupancy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Liang Zhao , Yingyu Wang , Shoudong Huang

Many visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems have been shown to be accurate and robust, and have real-time performance capabilities on both indoor and ground datasets. However, these methods can be problematic when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Zongqian Zhan , Wenjie Jian , Yihui Li , Xin Wang , Yang Yue