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Recent interest towards autonomous navigation and exploration robots for indoor applications has spurred research into indoor Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) robot systems. While most of these SLAM systems use Visual and LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Aditya Arun , William Hunter , Roshan Ayyalasomayajula , Dinesh Bharadia

We propose a novel approach for fast and accurate stereo visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) independent of feature detection and matching. We extend monocular Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) to a stereo system by optimizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jiawei Mo , Md Jahidul Islam , Junaed Sattar

We introduce a multi-user VR co-location framework that synchronizes users within a shared virtual environment aligned to physical space. Our approach combines a motion capture system with SLAM-based inside-out tracking to deliver smooth,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Carlos A. Pinheiro de Sousa , Niklas Gröne , Mathias Günther , Oliver Deussen

Accurate and robust object state estimation enables successful object manipulation. Visual sensing is widely used to estimate object poses. However, in a cluttered scene or in a tight workspace, the robot's end-effector often occludes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Kuan-Ting Yu , Alberto Rodriguez

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most essential techniques in many real-world robotic applications. The assumption of static environments is common in most SLAM algorithms, which however, is not the case for most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Han Wang , Jing Ying Ko , Lihua Xie

Collaborative state estimation using different heterogeneous sensors is a fundamental prerequisite for robotic swarms operating in GPS-denied environments, posing a significant research challenge. In this paper, we introduce a centralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Shipeng Zhong , Hongbo Chen , Yuhua Qi , Dapeng Feng , Zhiqiang Chen , Jin Wu , Weisong Wen , Ming Liu

We present an on-line 3D visual object tracking framework for monocular cameras by incorporating spatial knowledge and uncertainty from semantic mapping along with high frequency measurements from visual odometry. Using a combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Prateek Singhal , Ruffin White , Henrik Christensen

Collaborative Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (C-SLAM) is a vital component for successful multi-robot operations in environments without an external positioning system, such as indoors, underground or underwater. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Giovanni Beltrame

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

To support future spatial machine intelligence applications, lifelong simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has drawn significant attentions. SLAM is usually realized based on various types of mobile robots performing simultaneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zidong Han , Ruibo Jin , Xiaoyang Li , Bingpeng Zhou , Qinyu Zhang , Yi Gong

Simultaneous localization and mapping, especially the one relying solely on video data (vSLAM), is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in robotics and computer vision. State-of-the-art vSLAM algorithms are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Andrey Bokovoy , Kirill Muraviev , Konstantin Yakovlev

Neural implicit scene representations have recently shown promising results in dense visual SLAM. However, existing implicit SLAM algorithms are constrained to single-agent scenarios, and fall difficulties in large-scale scenes and long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tianchen Deng , Guole Shen , Xun Chen , Shenghai Yuan , Hongming Shen , Guohao Peng , Zhenyu Wu , Jingchuan Wang , Lihua Xie , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang , Weidong Chen

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

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…

This paper suggests a 2D exploration strategy for a planar space cluttered with obstacles. Rather than using point robots capable of adjusting their position and altitude instantly, this research is tailored to classical agents with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Omar Mostafa , Nikolaos Evangeliou , Anthony Tzes

In this paper, we present SROM, a novel real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system for autonomous vehicles. The keynote of the paper showcases SROM's ability to maintain localization at low sampling rates or at high…

Biologically inspired algorithms for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) such as RatSLAM have been shown to yield effective and robust robot navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments. One drawback however is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Ozan Çatal , Wouter Jansen , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt , Jan Steckel

This paper presents ORB-SLAM, a feature-based monocular SLAM system that operates in real time, in small and large, indoor and outdoor environments. The system is robust to severe motion clutter, allows wide baseline loop closing and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Raul Mur-Artal , J. M. M. Montiel , Juan D. Tardos

Event-based visual odometry is a specific branch of visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques, which aims at solving tracking and mapping subproblems (typically in parallel), by exploiting the special working principles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Xiuyuan Lu , Shaojie Shen , Guillermo Gallego , Yi Zhou

The evolving field of mobile robotics has indeed increased the demand for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. To augment the localization accuracy and mapping efficacy of SLAM, we refined the core module of the SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ang He , Xi-mei Wu , Xiao-bin Guo , Li-bin Liu