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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) during communication is emerging. This technology promises to provide information on propagation environments and transceivers' location, thus creating several new services and applications for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xiao Li

This paper presents a novel approach to visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using multiple RGB-D cameras. The proposed method, Multicam-SLAM, significantly enhances the robustness and accuracy of SLAM systems by capturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shenghao Li , Luchao Pang , Xianglong Hu

Multipath-based simultaneous localization and mapping (MP-SLAM) is a promising approach for future 6G networks to jointly estimate the positions of transmitters and receivers together with the propagation environment. In cooperative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Alexander Venus , Erik Leitinger , Klaus Witrisal

Recent work has shown impressive localization performance using only images of ground textures taken with a downward facing monocular camera. This provides a reliable navigation method that is robust to feature sparse environments and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Kyle M. Hart , Brendan Englot , Ryan P. O'Shea , John D. Kelly , David Martinez

Device localization and radar-like mapping are at the heart of integrated sensing and communication, enabling not only new services and applications, but can also improve communication quality with reduced overheads. These forms of sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Yu Ge , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Hyowon Kim , Jukka Talvitie , Sunwoo Kim , Lennart Svensson , Mikko Valkama , Henk Wymeersch

Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) enables a robot team to achieve coordinated tasks by relying on a common map of the environment. Constructing a map by centralized processing of the robot observations is undesirable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hanwen Cao , Sriram Shreedharan , Nikolay Atanasov

This paper surveys the state-of-the-art in the nexus of SLAM and Wireless Communications, attributing the bidirectional impact of each with a focus on visual SLAM (V-SLAM) integration. We provide an overview of key concepts related to…

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the task of building a map representation of an unknown environment while at the same time using it for positioning. A probabilistic interpretation of the SLAM task allows for incorporating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Manon Kok , Arno Solin , Thomas B. Schön

A robust nonlinear stochastic observer for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is proposed using the available uncertain measurements of angular velocity, translational velocity, and features. The proposed observer is posed on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Marium Tawhid , Ajay Singh Ludher , Hashim A. Hashim

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are essential in numerous robotics applications, such as autonomous navigation. Traditional SLAM approaches infer the metric state of the robot along with a metric map of the environment. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Roee Mor , Vadim Indelman

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a critical role in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for sixth-generation (6G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks, enabling environmental awareness and precise user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hang Que , Jie Yang , Tao Du , Shuqiang Xia , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results for 3D scene modeling using mixtures of Gaussians, yet its existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) variants typically rely on direct, deterministic pose optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhan Zhu , Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

The intrinsic geometric connections between millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals and the propagation environment can be leveraged for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 5G and beyond networks. However, estimated channel parameters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Ossi Kaltiokallio , Elizaveta Rastorgueva-Foi , Jukka Talvitie , Yu Ge , Henk Wymeersch , Mikko Valkama

Decentralized visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a powerful tool for multi-robot applications in environments where absolute positioning systems are not available. Being visual, it relies on cameras, cheap, lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Titus Cieslewski , Siddharth Choudhary , Davide Scaramuzza

This letter introduces a novel framework for dense Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) based on Gaussian Splatting. Recently, SLAM based on Gaussian Splatting has shown promising results. However, in monocular scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Pengcheng Zhu , Yaoming Zhuang , Baoquan Chen , Li Li , Chengdong Wu , Zhanlin Liu

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. While sparse point-based SLAM methods provide accurate camera localization, the generated maps lack semantic information. On the other hand, state of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Kejie Li , Yasir Latif , Ian Reid

We investigate a scenario where a chaser spacecraft or satellite equipped with a monocular camera navigates in close proximity to a target spacecraft. The satellite's primary objective is to construct a representation of the operational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lorenzo Ticozzi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Mapping and self-localization in unknown environments are fundamental capabilities in many robotic applications. These tasks typically involve the identification of objects as unique features or landmarks, which requires the objects both to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Beipeng Mu , Shih-Yuan Liu , Liam Paull , John Leonard , Jonathan How

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), i.e., the reconstruction of the environment represented by a (3D) map and the concurrent pose estimation, has made astonishing progress. Meanwhile, large scale applications aiming at the data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Vincent Ress , Wei Zhang , David Skuddis , Norbert Haala , Uwe Soergel

We present a factor graph formulation and particle-based sum-product algorithm for robust localization and tracking in multipath-prone environments. The proposed sequential algorithm jointly estimates the mobile agent's position together…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Alexander Venus , Erik Leitinger , Stefan Tertinek , Florian Meyer , Klaus Witrisal