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Most current LiDAR simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems build maps in point clouds, which are sparse when zoomed in, even though they seem dense to human eyes. Dense maps are essential for robotic applications, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jianyuan Ruan , Bo Li , Yibo Wang , Yuxiang Sun

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a crucial role in enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate previously unknown environments. Semantic SLAM mostly extends visual SLAM, leveraging the higher density information available to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Aduen Benjumea , Andrew Bradley , Alexander Rast , Matthias Rolf

The SLAM problem is known to have a special property that when robot orientation is known, estimating the history of robot poses and feature locations can be posed as a standard linear least squares problem. In this work, we develop a SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Saurav Agarwal , Vikram Shree , Suman Chakravorty

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a process of concurrent estimation of the vehicle's pose and feature locations with respect to a frame of reference. This paper proposes a computationally cheap geometric nonlinear SLAM filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy

We present a novel spectral learning algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) from range data with known correspondences. This algorithm is an instance of a general spectral system identification framework, from which it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Byron Boots , Geoffrey J. Gordon

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

A key requirement in robotics is the ability to simultaneously self-localize and map a previously unknown environment, relying primarily on onboard sensing and computation. Achieving fully onboard accurate simultaneous localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Existing Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approaches are limited in their scalability due to growing map size in long-term robot operation. Moreover, processing such maps for localization and planning tasks leads to the…

We present a dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that uses 3D Gaussians as a scene representation. Our approach enables interactive-time reconstruction and photo-realistic rendering from real-world single-camera RGBD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Vladimir Yugay , Yue Li , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

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

Robust and fine localization algorithms are crucial for autonomous driving. For the production of such vehicles as a commodity, affordable sensing solutions and reliable localization algorithms must be designed. This work considers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Vishnu Teja Kunde , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Siddharth Agarwal

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

We present a collaborative visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework for service robots. With an edge server maintaining a map database and performing global optimization, each robot can register to an existing map,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Ouyang , Xuesong Shi , Yujie Wang , Yuxin Tian , Yingzhe Shen , Dawei Wang , Peng Wang , Zhiqiang Cao

We present a real-time semantic mapping approach for mobile vision systems with a 2D to 3D object detection pipeline and rapid data association for generated landmarks. Besides the semantic map enrichment the associated detections are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Thorsten Hempel , Ayoub Al-Hamadi

This paper addresses vehicle positioning, a topic whose importance has risen dramatically in the context of future autonomous driving systems. While classical methods that use GPS and/or beacon signals from network infrastructure for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Xinghe Chu , Zhaoming Lu , David Gesbert , Luhan Wang , Xiangming Wen

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a key tool for monitoring construction sites, where aligning the evolving as-built state with the as-planned design enables early error detection and reduces costly rework. LiDAR-based SLAM…

The dynamic factors in the environment will lead to the decline of camera localization accuracy due to the violation of the static environment assumption of SLAM algorithm. Recently, some related works generally use the combination of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Xinggang Hu , Yunzhou Zhang , Zhenzhong Cao , Rong Ma , Yanmin Wu , Zhiqiang Deng , Wenkai Sun

Most Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems have traditionally assumed a static world, which does not align with real-world scenarios. To enable robots to safely navigate and plan in dynamic environments, it is essential to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jesse Morris , Yiduo Wang , Viorela Ila

Existing solutions to visual simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) assume that errors in feature extraction and matching are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d), but this assumption is known to not be true -- features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Sadegh Rabiee , Joydeep Biswas