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Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner

Computing globally optimal motion plans for a robot is challenging in part because it requires analyzing a robot's configuration space simultaneously from both a macroscopic viewpoint (i.e., considering paths in multiple homotopic classes)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Alan Kuntz , Chris Bowen , Ron Alterovitz

Robots reason about the environment through dedicated representations. Popular choices for dense representations exploit Truncated Signed Distance Functions (TSDF) and Octree data structures. However, TSDF provides a projective or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Lan Wu , Cedric Le Gentil , Teresa Vidal-Calleja

In this paper, we present a cooperative odometry scheme based on the detection of mobile markers in line with the idea of cooperative positioning for multiple robots [1]. To this end, we introduce a simple optimization scheme that realizes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Raul Acuna , Zaijuan Li , Volker Willert

This paper introduces GeoMorph, a novel geometric deep-learning framework designed for image registration of cortical surfaces. The registration process consists of two main steps. First, independent feature extraction is performed on each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Mohamed A. Suliman , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Emma C. Robinson

Implicit representations have been widely applied in robotics for obstacle avoidance and path planning. In this paper, we explore the problem of constructing an implicit distance representation from a single image. Past methods for implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Wei-Teng Chu , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

Motivated by the goal of achieving long-term drift-free camera pose estimation in complex scenarios, we propose a global positioning framework fusing visual, inertial and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements in multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Bing Han , Zhongyang Xiao , Shuai Huang , Tao Zhang

In this work, we propose the LiDAR Road-Atlas, a compactable and efficient 3D map representation, for autonomous robot or vehicle navigation in general urban environment. The LiDAR Road-Atlas can be generated by an online mapping framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Banghe Wu , Chengzhong Xu , Hui Kong

Maintaining stable and accurate localization during fast motion or on rough terrain remains highly challenging for mobile robots with onboard resources. Currently, multi-sensor fusion methods based on continuous-time representation offer a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Lei Zhao , Xingyi Li , Tianchen Deng , Chuan Cao , Han Zhang , Weidong Chen

Neural implicit representations have had a significant impact on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) by enabling robots to build continuous, differentiable, and high-fidelity 3D maps from sensor data. However, as the scale and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yulun Tian , Hanwen Cao , Sunghwan Kim , Nikolay Atanasov

Despite having achieved real-time performance in mesh construction, most of the current LiDAR odometry and meshing methods may struggle to deal with complex scenes due to relying on explicit meshing schemes. They are usually sensitive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yanjin Zhu , Xin Zheng , Jianke Zhu

Reconstructing articulated objects is essential for building digital twins of interactive environments. However, prior methods typically decouple geometry and motion by first reconstructing object shape in distinct states and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Licheng Shen , Saining Zhang , Honghan Li , Peilin Yang , Zihao Huang , Zongzheng Zhang , Hao Zhao

Motion planning framed as optimisation in structured latent spaces has recently emerged as competitive with traditional methods in terms of planning success while significantly outperforming them in terms of computational speed. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jun Yamada , Chia-Man Hung , Jack Collins , Ioannis Havoutis , Ingmar Posner

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

Mapping and scene representation are fundamental to reliable planning and navigation in mobile robots. While purely geometric maps using voxel grids allow for general navigation, obtaining up-to-date spatial and semantically rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Tim Steinke , Martin Büchner , Niclas Vödisch , Abhinav Valada

Real-time and collision-free motion planning remains challenging for robotic manipulation in unknown environments due to continuous perception updates and the need for frequent online replanning. To address these challenges, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xuewei Zhang , Bailing Tian , Kai Zheng , Yulin Hui , Junjie Lu , Zhiyu Li

It will be increasingly common for robots to operate in cluttered human-centered environments such as homes, workplaces, and hospitals, where the robot is often tasked to maintain perception constraints, such as monitoring people or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Qingxi Meng , Emiliano Flores , Thai Duong , Vaibhav Unhelkar , Lydia E. Kavraki

This paper presents a visual-inertial odometry-enhanced geometrically stable Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm for accurate mapping using aerial robots. The proposed method employs a visual-inertial odometry framework in order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Tung Dang , Shehryar Khattak , Christos Papachristos , Kostas Alexis

Motion simulation, prediction and planning are foundational tasks in autonomous driving, each essential for modeling and reasoning about dynamic traffic scenarios. While often addressed in isolation due to their differing objectives, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Nan Song , Junzhe Jiang , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Robots navigating dynamic, cluttered, and semantically complex environments must integrate perception, symbolic reasoning, and spatial planning to generalize across diverse layouts and object categories. Existing methods often rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ahmed Alanazi , Duy Ho , Yugyung Lee