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Accurate and robust localization and mapping are essential components for most autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a SLAM system for building globally consistent maps, called PIN-SLAM, that is based on an elastic and compact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yue Pan , Xingguang Zhong , Louis Wiesmann , Thorbjörn Posewsky , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Monocular visual SLAM has become an attractive practical approach for robot localization and 3D environment mapping, since cameras are small, lightweight, inexpensive, and produce high-rate, high-resolution data streams. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hasnain Vohra , Maxim Bazik , Matthew Antone , Joseph Mundy , William Stephenson

Visual slam technology is one of the key technologies for robot to explore unknown environment independently. Accurate estimation of camera pose based on visual sensor is the basis of autonomous navigation and positioning. However, most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Deng Su , Dehong Chong

Thermal cameras offer strong potential for robot perception under challenging illumination and weather conditions. However, thermal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains difficult due to unreliable feature extraction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Zeyu Jiang , Kuan Xu , Changhao Chen

In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled, multi-modal simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework, integrating an extensive set of sensors: IMU, cameras, multiple lidars, and Ultra-wideband (UWB) range measurements, hence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Search and rescue with a team of heterogeneous mobile robots in unknown and large-scale underground environments requires high-precision localization and mapping. This crucial requirement is faced with many challenges in complex and…

Geometric navigation is nowadays a well-established field of robotics and the research focus is shifting towards higher-level scene understanding, such as Semantic Mapping. When a robot needs to interact with its environment, it must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Federico Rollo , Gennaro Raiola , Andrea Zunino , Nikolaos Tsagarakis , Arash Ajoudani

SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) is a crucial component for robotic systems, providing a map of an environment, the current location and previous trajectory of a robot. While 3D LiDAR SLAM has received notable improvements in…

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

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the key components of a control system that aims to ensure autonomous navigation of a mobile robot in unknown environments. In a variety of practical cases a robot might need to travel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Kirill Muravyev , Konstantin Yakovlev

SLAM technology plays a crucial role in indoor mapping and localization. A common challenge in indoor environments is the "double-sided mapping issue", where closely positioned walls, doors, and other surfaces are mistakenly identified as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Chengwei Zhao , Yixuan Li , Yina Jian , Jie Xu , Linji Wang , Yongxin Ma , Xinglai Jin

In this paper, a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that eliminates the influence of moving objects in dynamic environments is proposed. This method utilizes the correlation between map points to separate points that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Weichen Dai , Yu Zhang , Ping Li , Zheng Fang , Sebastian Scherer

Exploring an unfamiliar indoor environment and avoiding obstacles is challenging for visually impaired people. Currently, several approaches achieve the avoidance of static obstacles based on the mapping of indoor scenes. To solve the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wenyan Ou , Jiaming Zhang , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Gerhard Jaworek , Karin Müller , Rainer Stiefelhagen

This paper presents the development of a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based Autonomous Navigation system. The motivation for this study was to find a solution for navigating interior spaces autonomously. Interior navigation…

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical task in robotics, enabling systems to autonomously navigate and understand complex environments. Current SLAM approaches predominantly rely on geometric cues for mapping and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yongxu Wang , Xu Cao , Weiyun Yi , Zhaoxin Fan

Many existing visual SLAM methods can achieve high localization accuracy in dynamic environments by leveraging deep learning to mask moving objects. However, these methods incur significant computational overhead as the camera tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yuhao Zhang , Mihai Bujanca , Mikel Luján

Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the problem of planning and controlling the motion of a robot to build the most accurate and complete model of the surrounding environment. Since the first foundational work in active…

How does a person work out their location using a floorplan? It is probably safe to say that we do not explicitly measure depths to every visible surface and try to match them against different pose estimates in the floorplan. And yet, this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Nicolas Pugeault , Richard Bowden

In this paper, we study the three-dimensional (3D) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem in complex outdoor and indoor environments based only on millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communication signals. Firstly, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Zhiyu Mou , Feifei Gao

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