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Simulation engines are widely adopted in robotics. However, they lack either full simulation control, ROS integration, realistic physics, or photorealism. Recently, synthetic data generation and realistic rendering has advanced tasks like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Elia Bonetto , Chenghao Xu , Aamir Ahmad

Recent years have seen a focus on research into distributed optimization algorithms for multi-robot Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM). Research in this domain, however, is made difficult by a lack of standard…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Daniel McGann , Easton R. Potokar , Michael Kaess

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…

In this paper, we present an efficient visual SLAM system designed to tackle both short-term and long-term illumination challenges. Our system adopts a hybrid approach that combines deep learning techniques for feature detection and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Kuan Xu , Yuefan Hao , Shenghai Yuan , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Simultaneous localization and mapping, as a fundamental task in computer vision, has gained higher demands for performance in recent years due to the rapid development of autonomous driving and unmanned aerial vehicles. Traditional SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Zhihe Zhang , Hao Wei , Hongtao Nie

Accurate 3D point cloud map generation is a core task for various robot missions or even for data-driven urban analysis. To do so, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Giseop Kim , Seungsang Yun , Jeongyun Kim , Ayoung Kim

SLAM is a fundamental component of modern autonomous systems, providing robots and their operators with a deeper understanding of their environment. SLAM systems often encounter challenges due to the dynamic nature of robotic motion,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Leon Davies , Baihua Li , Mohamad Saada , Simon Sølvsten , Qinggang Meng

The majority of visual SLAM systems are not robust in dynamic scenarios. The ones that deal with dynamic objects in the scenes usually rely on deep-learning-based methods to detect and filter these objects. However, these methods cannot…

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is essential for mobile robotics, enabling autonomous navigation in dynamic, unstructured outdoor environments without relying on external positioning systems. These environments pose significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Fabian Schmidt , Constantin Blessing , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

For VSLAM (Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), localization is a challenging task, especially for some challenging situations: textureless frames, motion blur, etc.. To build a robust exploration and localization system in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Weinan Chen , Lei Zhu , Yisheng Guan , C. Ronald Kube , Hong Zhang

Generally capable Spatial AI systems must build persistent scene representations where geometric models are combined with meaningful semantic labels. The many approaches to labelling scenes can be divided into two clear groups: view-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Zoe Landgraf , Fabian Falck , Michael Bloesch , Stefan Leutenegger , Andrew Davison

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) presents a formidable challenge in robotics, involving the dynamic construction of a map while concurrently determining the precise location of the robotic agent within an unfamiliar environment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Tianrui Liu , Changxin Xu , Yuxin Qiao , Chufeng Jiang , Jiqiang Yu

This paper explores how deep learning techniques can improve visual-based SLAM performance in challenging environments. By combining deep feature extraction and deep matching methods, we introduce a versatile hybrid visual SLAM system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhang Xiao , Shuaixin Li

Many applications of Visual SLAM, such as augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics or autonomous driving, require versatile, robust and precise solutions, most often with real-time capability. In this work, we describe OV$^{2}$SLAM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Maxime Ferrera , Alexandre Eudes , Julien Moras , Martial Sanfourche , Guy Le Besnerais

This project has conducted research on robot path planning based on Visual SLAM. The main work of this project is as follows: (1) Construction of Visual SLAM system. Research has been conducted on the basic architecture of Visual SLAM. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Wang Ruiqi

In this paper, we present a comprehensive investigation of the challenges of Monocular Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) methods for underwater robots. While significant progress has been made in state estimation methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Michele Grimaldi , David Nakath , Mengkun She , Kevin Köser

Among the abilities that autonomous mobile robots should exhibit, map building and localization are definitely recognized as fundamental. Consequently, countless algorithms for solving the Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Matteo Luperto , Valerio Castelli , Francesco Amigoni

Object-level Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), which incorporates semantic information for high-level scene understanding, faces challenges of under-constrained optimization due to sparse observations. Prior work has introduced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yang Jiao , Yiding Qiu , Henrik I. Christensen

Blending representation learning approaches with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems is an open question, because of their highly modular and complex nature. Functionally, SLAM is an operation that transforms raw sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Soroush Saryazdi , Ganesh Iyer , Liam Paull

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