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Fiducial markers can encode rich information about the environment and can aid Visual SLAM (VSLAM) approaches in reconstructing maps with practical semantic information. Current marker-based VSLAM approaches mainly utilize markers for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ali Tourani , Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Rafael Munoz Salinas , Holger Voos

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

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, commonly known as SLAM, has been an active research area in the field of Robotics over the past three decades. For solving the SLAM problem, every robot is equipped with either a single sensor or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mubariz Zaffar , Shoaib Ehsan , Rustam Stolkin , Klaus McDonald Maier

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

Robots and autonomous systems need to know where they are within a map to navigate effectively. Thus, simultaneous localization and mapping or SLAM is a common building block of robot navigation systems. When building a map via a SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Luca Di Giammarino , Irvin Aloise , Cyrill Stachniss , Giorgio Grisetti

Visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) based on planar features has found widespread applications in fields such as environmental structure perception and augmented reality. However, current research faces challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Xinggang Hu , Yanmin Wu , Mingyuan Zhao , Linghao Yang , Xiangkui Zhang , Xiangyang Ji

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a key component of autonomous systems operating in environments that require a consistent map for reliable localization. SLAM has been a widely studied topic for decades with most of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 J. Jorge , T. Barros , C. Premebida , M. Aleksandrov , D. Goehring , U. J. Nunes

The development of data innovation as of late and the expanded limit, has permitted the acquaintance of artificial vision connected with SLAM, offering ascend to what is known as Visual SLAM. The objective of this paper is to build up a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 V. I Mebin Jose , D. J Binoj

Recent trends have accelerated the development of spatial applications on mobile devices and robots. These include navigation, augmented reality, human-robot interaction, and others. A key enabling technology for such applications is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Zakieh S. Hashemifar , Charuvahan Adhivarahan , Anand Balakrishnan , Karthik Dantu

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…

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) is a fundamental technology for robotics applications. While VSLAM research has achieved significant advancements, its robustness under challenging situations, such as poor lighting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Hudson M. S. Bruno , Esther L. Colombini , Sidney N. Givigi

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) achieves the purpose of simultaneous positioning and map construction based on self-perception. The paper makes an overview in SLAM including Lidar SLAM, visual SLAM, and their fusion. For Lidar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Baichuan Huang , Jun Zhao , Jingbin Liu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have made the real-time dense reconstruction possible increasing the prospects of navigation, tracking, and augmented reality problems. Some breakthroughs have been achieved in this regard during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Redhwan Jamiruddin , Ali Osman Sari , Jahanzaib Shabbir , Tarique Anwer

The LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) sensor has become one of the most important perceptual devices due to its important role in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Existing SLAM methods are mainly developed for mechanical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been crucial across various domains, including autonomous driving, mobile robotics, and mixed reality. Dense visual SLAM, leveraging RGB-D camera systems, offers advantages but faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Hongbeen Park , Minjeong Park , Giljoo Nam , Jinkyu Kim

Visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a key module of robotics and low-speed autonomous vehicles, which is usually limited by the high computation burden for practical applications. To this end, an innovative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Bingxiang Kang , Jie Zou , Guofa Li , Pengwei Zhang , Jie Zeng , Kan Wang , Jie Li

Exploration is an important step in autonomous navigation of robotic systems. In this paper we introduce a series of enhancements for exploration algorithms in order to use them with vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kirill Muravyev , Andrey Bokovoy , Konstantin Yakovlev

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has achieved impressive performance in static environments. However, SLAM in dynamic environments remains an open question. Many methods directly filter out dynamic objects, resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haoang Li , Xiangqi Meng , Xingxing Zuo , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang , Daniel Cremers