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Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are an essential component in agricultural robotics that enable autonomous navigation and the construction of accurate 3D maps of agricultural fields. However, lack of texture,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mohamad Qadri , George Kantor

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in slowly varying scenes is important for long-term robot task completion. Failing to detect scene changes may lead to inaccurate maps and, ultimately, lost robots. Classical SLAM algorithms…

Fast, collision-free motion through unknown environments remains a challenging problem for robotic systems. In these situations, the robot's ability to reason about its future motion is often severely limited by sensor field of view (FOV).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Kapil Katyal , Katie Popek , Chris Paxton , Joseph Moore , Kevin Wolfe , Philippe Burlina , Gregory D. Hager

Autonomous navigation is one of the key requirements for every potential application of mobile robots in the real-world. Besides high-accuracy state estimation, a suitable and globally consistent representation of the 3D environment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Simon Boche , Sebastián Barbas Laina , Stefan Leutenegger

Autonomous agents rely on sensor data to construct representations of their environments, essential for predicting future events and planning their actions. However, sensor measurements suffer from limited range, occlusions, and sensor…

Visual understanding of 3D environments in real-time, at low power, is a huge computational challenge. Often referred to as SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping), it is central to applications spanning domestic and industrial…

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

With the deepening of research on the SLAM system, the possibility of cooperative SLAM with multi-robots has been proposed. This paper presents a map matching and localization approach considering the cooperative SLAM of an aerial-ground…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Xuecheng Xu , Zexi Chen , Jiaxin Guo , Yue Wang , Yunkai Wang , Rong Xiong

Semantic mapping is the task of providing a robot with a map of its environment beyond the open, navigable space of traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms by attaching semantics to locations. The system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 David Balaban , Harshavardhan Jagannathan , Henry Liu , Justin Hart

Autonomous exploration requires a robot to explore an unknown environment while constructing an accurate map using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques. Without prior information, the exploration performance is usually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ruofei Bai , Hongliang Guo , Wei-Yun Yau , Lihua Xie

Active Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical problem in autonomous robotics, enabling robots to navigate to new regions while building an accurate model of their surroundings. Visual SLAM is a popular technique that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Kenji Leong

Agricultural robots must navigate challenging dynamic and semi-structured environments. Recently, environmental modeling using LiDAR-based SLAM has shown promise in providing highly accurate geometry. However, how this chaotic environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yaoqiang Pan , Hao Cao , Kewei Hu , Hanwen Kang , Xing Wang

In this paper, we explore the challenging 1-to-N map matching problem, which exploits a compact description of map data, to improve the scalability of map matching techniques used by various robot vision tasks. We propose a first method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shogo Hanada , Kanji Tanaka

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), i.e., the reconstruction of the environment represented by a (3D) map and the concurrent pose estimation, has made astonishing progress. Meanwhile, large scale applications aiming at the data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Vincent Ress , Wei Zhang , David Skuddis , Norbert Haala , Uwe Soergel

This paper presents the first active object mapping framework for complex robotic manipulation and autonomous perception tasks. The framework is built on an object SLAM system integrated with a simultaneous multi-object pose estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yanmin Wu , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Xin Chen , Sonya Coleman , Wenkai Sun , Xinggang Hu , Zhiqiang Deng

Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (CSLAM) is a critical capability for enabling multiple robots to operate in complex environments. Most CSLAM techniques rely on the transmission of low-level features for visual and…

Accurate localization is an essential technology for the flexible navigation of robots in large-scale environments. Both SLAM-based and map-based localization will increase the computing load due to the increase in map size, which will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yixiao Feng , Zhou Jiang , Yongliang Shi , Yunlong Feng , Xiangyu Chen , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

Vehicles with prolonged autonomous missions have to maintain environment awareness by simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Closed loop correction is substituted by interpolation in rigid body transformation space in order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Paavo Nevalainen , Parisa Movahedi , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund , Jukka Heikkonen

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be a fundamental capability for intelligent mobile robots. Over the past decades, many impressed SLAM systems have been developed and achieved good performance under certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Chao Yu , Zuxin Liu , Xinjun Liu , Fugui Xie , Yi Yang , Qi Wei , Qiao Fei

Semantic mapping is the task of providing a robot with a map of its environment beyond the open, navigable space of traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms by attaching semantics to locations. The system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 David Balaban , Justin Hart