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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical technology that enables autonomous robots to be aware of their surrounding environment. With the development of deep learning, SLAM systems can achieve a higher level of perception…

In this paper, we design algorithms to protect swarm-robotics applications against sensor denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on robots. We focus on applications requiring the robots to jointly select actions, e.g., which trajectory to follow,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Lifeng Zhou , Vasileios Tzoumas , George J. Pappas , Pratap Tokekar

In multi-robot systems (MRS), cooperative localization is a crucial task for enhancing system robustness and scalability, especially in GPS-denied or communication-limited environments. However, adversarial attacks, such as sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Tohid Kargar Tasooji , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Cooperative localization and target tracking are essential for multi-robot systems to implement high-level tasks. To this end, we propose a distributed invariant Kalman filter based on covariance intersection for effective multi-robot pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haoying Li , Qingcheng Zeng , Haoran Li , Yanglin Zhang , Junfeng Wu

The bundle of geometry and appearance in computer vision has proven to be a promising solution for robots across a wide variety of applications. Stereo cameras and RGB-D sensors are widely used to realise fast 3D reconstruction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xuanpeng Li , Rachid Belaroussi

In many robotics problems, there is a significant gain in collaborative information sharing between multiple robots, for exploration, search and rescue, tracking multiple targets, or mapping large environments. One of the key implicit…

A central challenge for multi-robot systems is fusing independently gathered perception data into a unified representation. Despite progress in Collaborative SLAM (C-SLAM), benchmarking remains hindered by the scarcity of dedicated…

In this paper we propose a novel algorithm, Wi-Closure, to improve computational efficiency and robustness of loop closure detection in multi-robot SLAM. Our approach decreases the computational overhead of classical approaches by pruning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Weiying Wang , Anne Kemmeren , Daniel Son , Javier Alonso-Mora , Stephanie Gil

This paper presents LEMURS, an algorithm for learning scalable multi-robot control policies from cooperative task demonstrations. We propose a port-Hamiltonian description of the multi-robot system to exploit universal physical constraints…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Eduardo Sebastian , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagues

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) stands as one of the critical challenges in robot navigation. A SLAM system often consists of a front-end component for motion estimation and a back-end system for eliminating estimation drifts.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Taimeng Fu , Shaoshu Su , Yiren Lu , Chen Wang

The visual SLAM method is widely used for self-localization and mapping in complex environments. Visual-inertia SLAM, which combines a camera with IMU, can significantly improve the robustness and enable scale weak-visibility, whereas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Peng Gang , Lu Zezao , Chen Bocheng , Chen Shanliang , He Dingxin

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) enables autonomous robots to navigate and execute their tasks through unknown environments. However, performing SLAM in large environments with a single robot is not efficient, and visual or…

Integrating multiple LiDAR sensors can significantly enhance a robot's perception of the environment, enabling it to capture adequate measurements for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Indeed, solid-state LiDARs can bring in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

To empower mobile robots with usable maps as well as highest state estimation accuracy and robustness, we present OKVIS2-X: a state-of-the-art multi-sensor Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system building dense volumetric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Simon Boche , Jaehyung Jung , Sebastián Barbas Laina , Stefan Leutenegger

Most real-time autonomous robot applications require a robot to traverse through a dynamic space for a long time. In some cases, a robot needs to work in the same environment. Such applications give rise to the problem of a life-long SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Waqas Ali , Peilin Liu , Rendong Ying , Zheng Gong

In this paper, we present a system for incrementally reconstructing a dense 3D model of the geometry of an outdoor environment using a single monocular camera attached to a moving vehicle. Dense models provide a rich representation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Louis Gallagher , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani , John B. McDonald

Real-time simultaneously localization and dense mapping is very helpful for providing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for surgeons or even surgical robots. In this paper, we propose MIS-SLAM: a complete real-time large scale dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jingwei Song , Jun Wang , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

The Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) system has seen significant development in recent years, demonstrating high precision in environments with limited dynamic objects. However, their performance significantly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Taozhe Li , Wei Sun

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has become a critical technology for intelligent transportation systems and autonomous robots and is widely used in autonomous driving. However, traditional manual feature-based methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhiqi Zhao , Chang Wu , Xiaotong Kong , Zejie Lv , Xiaoqi Du , Qiyan Li

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