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In commercial autonomous service robots with several form factors, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an essential technology for providing proper services such as cleaning and guidance. Such robots require SLAM algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 DongKi Noh , Hyungtae Lim , Gyuho Eoh , Duckyu Choi , Jeongsik Choi , Hyunjun Lim , SeungMin Baek , Hyun Myung

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

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a crucial role in autonomous systems. Traditional SLAM methods, based on static environment assumptions, struggle to handle complex dynamic environments. Recent dynamic SLAM systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Haolan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Chenghao Li , Ruidong Yang , Yonghoon Ji , Nak Young Chong

Neural implicit representations have recently demonstrated considerable potential in the field of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). This is due to their inherent advantages, including low storage overhead and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lizhi Bai , Chunqi Tian , Jun Yang , Siyu Zhang , Weijian Liang

Visual SLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping - in dynamic environments typically relies on identifying and masking image features on moving objects to prevent them from negatively affecting performance. Current approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Adrian Bojko , Romain Dupont , Mohamed Tamaazousti , Hervé Le Borgne

Navigating toy drones through uncharted GPS-denied indoor spaces poses significant difficulties due to their reliance on GPS for location determination. In such circumstances, the necessity for achieving proper navigation is a primary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Murad Tukan , Fares Fares , Yotam Grufinkle , Ido Talmor , Loay Mualem , Vladimir Braverman , Dan Feldman

Commonly, SLAM algorithms are focused on a static environment, however, there are several scenes where dynamic objects are present. This work presents the STDyn-SLAM an image feature-based SLAM system working on dynamic environments using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Daniela Esparza , Gerardo Flores

Accurate pose estimation is fundamental for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, where Visual-Inertial SLAM (VI-SLAM) provides a cost-effective solution for localization and mapping. However, existing VI-SLAM methods mainly rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yiyang Wu , Xiaohu Zhang , Yanjin Du , Tongsu Zhang , Chujun Li , Siyang Chen , Guoyi Zhang , Xiangpeng Xu

(Visual) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains a fundamental challenge in enabling autonomous systems to navigate and understand large-scale environments. Traditional SLAM approaches struggle to balance efficiency and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tian Yi Lim , Boyang Sun , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum

Visual-based recognition, e.g., image classification, object detection, etc., is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and robotics communities. Concerning the roboticists, since the knowledge of the environment is a prerequisite for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Antonios Gasteratos , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Tobias Fischer , Yiannis Aloimonos , Michael Milford

The traditional Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) systems rely on the assumption of a static environment and fail to accurately estimate the system's location when dynamic objects are present in the background. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yaoming Zhuang , Pengrun Jia , Zheng Liu , Li Li , Chengdong Wu , Wei cui , Zhanlin Liu

This paper introduces Dr-PoGO, a method for Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) using a 2D spinning radar. Unlike cameras or lidars that require line-of-sight, millimetre-wave radars can `see' through dust, falling snow, rain, etc.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Cedric Le Gentil , Weican Li , Leonardo Brizi , Timothy D. Barfoot

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

In object-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), 6D object poses offer a compact representation of landmark geometry useful for downstream planning and manipulation tasks. However, measurement ambiguity then arises as objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Jiahui Fu , Qiangqiang Huang , Kevin Doherty , Yue Wang , John J. Leonard

We consider an autonomous exploration problem in which a range-sensing mobile robot is tasked with accurately mapping the landmarks in an a priori unknown environment efficiently in real-time; it must choose sensing actions that both curb…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Fanfei Chen , John D. Martin , Yewei Huang , Jinkun Wang , Brendan Englot

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) seeks to provide a moving agent with real-time self-localization. To achieve real-time speed, SLAM incrementally propagates position estimates. This makes SLAM fast but also makes it vulnerable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Huajian Huang , Wen-Yan Lin , Siying Liu , Dong Zhang , Sai-Kit Yeung

In this work, we explore the use of objects in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in unseen worlds and propose an object-aided system (OA-SLAM). More precisely, we show that, compared to low-level points, the major benefit of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Matthieu Zins , Gilles Simon , Marie-Odile Berger

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…

Robotic applications require a comprehensive understanding of the scene. In recent years, neural fields-based approaches that parameterize the entire environment have become popular. These approaches are promising due to their continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Evgenii Kruzhkov , Alena Savinykh , Sven Behnke

Advancing maturity in mobile and legged robotics technologies is changing the landscapes where robots are being deployed and found. This innovation calls for a transformation in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Alexey Merzlyakov , Steve Macenski