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We address automotive odometry for low-speed driving and parking, where centimeter-level accuracy is required due to tight spaces and nearby obstacles. Traditional methods using inertial-measurement units and wheel encoders require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Luis Diener , Jens Kalkkuhl , Markus Enzweiler

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

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

Due to budgetary constraints, indoor navigation typically employs 2D LiDAR rather than 3D LiDAR. However, the utilization of 2D LiDAR in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) frequently encounters challenges related to motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Bin Zhang , Zexin Peng , Bi Zeng , Junjie Lu

We present a generic framework for scale-aware direct monocular odometry based on depth prediction from a deep neural network. In contrast with previous methods where depth information is only partially exploited, we formulate a novel depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Carlos Campos , Juan D. Tardós

In this work, we present Voxel-SLAM: a complete, accurate, and versatile LiDAR-inertial SLAM system that fully utilizes short-term, mid-term, long-term, and multi-map data associations to achieve real-time estimation and high precision…

This paper proposes a 3D LiDAR SLAM algorithm named Ground-SLAM, which exploits grounds in structured multi-floor environments to compress the pose drift mainly caused by LiDAR measurement bias. Ground-SLAM is developed based on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xin Wei , Jixin Lv , Jie Sun , Shiliang Pu

Robust and fast motion estimation and mapping is a key prerequisite for autonomous operation of mobile robots. The goal of performing this task solely on a stereo pair of video cameras is highly demanding and bears conflicting objectives:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Nicola Krombach , David Droeschel , Sebastian Houben , Sven Behnke

Monocular visual simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) is nowadays an irreplaceable tool in mobile robotics and augmented reality, where it performs robustly. However, human colonoscopies pose formidable challenges like occlusions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Richard Elvira , Juan D. Tardós , José M. M. Montiel

This paper proposes FAST-LIVO2: a fast, direct LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry framework to achieve accurate and robust state estimation in SLAM tasks and provide great potential in real-time, onboard robotic applications. FAST-LIVO2 fuses…

We present a lightweight magnetic field simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) approach for drift correction in odometry paths, where the interest is purely in the odometry and not in map building. We represent the past magnetic field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Manon Kok , Arno Solin

Integrating multiple LiDAR sensors can significantly enhance a robot's perception of the environment, enabling it to capture adequate measurements for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Indeed, solid-state LiDARs can bring in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

In this paper, we present a novel tightly-coupled probabilistic monocular visual-odometric Simultaneous Localization and Mapping algorithm using wheels and a MEMS gyroscope, which can provide accurate, robust and long-term localization for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Meixiang Quan , Songhao Piao , Minglang Tan , Shi-Sheng Huang

We propose GSO-SLAM, a real-time monocular dense SLAM system that leverages Gaussian scene representation. Unlike existing methods that couple tracking and mapping with a unified scene, incurring computational costs, or loosely integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiung Yeon , Seongbo Ha , Hyeonwoo Yu

In this paper, we present a novel method for integrating 3D LiDAR depth measurements into the existing ORB-SLAM3 by building upon the RGB-D mode. We propose and compare two methods of depth map generation: conventional computer vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Florian Sauerbeck , Benjamin Obermeier , Martin Rudolph , Johannes Betz

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

The Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) problem has been well studied in the robotics community, especially using mono, stereo cameras or depth sensors. 3D depth sensors, such as Velodyne LiDAR, have proved in the last 10 years to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud

LiDAR-based SLAM is a core technology for autonomous vehicles and robots. One key contribution of this work to 3D LiDAR SLAM and localization is a fierce defense of view-based maps (pose graphs with time-stamped sensor readings) as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 José Luis Blanco-Claraco

Traditional approaches for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) rely on low-level vision information for state estimation, such as handcrafted local features or the image gradient. While significant progress has been made…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Huaiyang Huang , Haoyang Ye , Yuxiang Sun , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein