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Localization is an essential technique in mobile robotics. In a complex environment, it is necessary to fuse different localization modules to obtain more robust results, in which the error model plays a paramount role. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xiaoliang Ju , Donghao Xu , Huijing Zhao

The application of autonomous mobile robots in robotic security platforms is becoming a promising field of innovation due to their adaptive capability of responding to potential disturbances perceived through a wide range of sensors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Mashnoon Islam , Touhid Ahmed , Abu Tammam Bin Nuruddin , Mashuda Islam , Shahnewaz Siddique

This paper presents a novel multi-modal Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) algorithm for self-driving cars that combines camera and LiDAR data. Camera frames are processed with a state-of-the-art 3D object detector, whereas classical clustering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Riccardo Pieroni , Simone Specchia , Matteo Corno , Sergio Matteo Savaresi

Localization can be achieved by different sensors and techniques such as a global positioning system (GPS), wifi, ultrasonic sensors, and cameras. In this paper, we focus on the laser-based localization method for unmanned aerial vehicle…

Autonomous mobility systems increasingly operate in dense and dynamic environments where perception occlusions, limited sensing coverage, and multi-agent interactions pose major challenges. While onboard sensors provide essential local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yufeng Yang , Minghao Ning , Keqi Shu , Aladdin Saleh , Ehsan Hashemi , Amir Khajepour

Robust and accurate localization is an essential component for robotic navigation and autonomous driving. The use of cameras for localization with high definition map (HD Map) provides an affordable localization sensor set. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Chengcheng Guo , Minjie Lin , Heyang Guo , Pengpeng Liang , Erkang Cheng

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) localization is of significant importance as it provides fundamental position and orientation for autonomous operations like intelligent vehicles. Integrating diverse and complementary sensors such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Wei Liu , Jiaqi Zhu , Guirong Zhuo , Wufei Fu , Zonglin Meng , Yishi Lu , Min Hua , Feng Qiao , You Li , Yi He , Lu Xiong

Estimating and understanding the surroundings of the vehicle precisely forms the basic and crucial step for the autonomous vehicle. The perception system plays a significant role in providing an accurate interpretation of a vehicle's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Sreenivasa Hikkal Venugopala

In this work we propose an alternative formulation to the problem of ground reflectivity grid based localization involving laser scanned data from multiple LIDARs mounted on autonomous vehicles. The driving idea of our localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Juan Castorena , Siddharth Agarwal

We present a vehicle self-localization method using point-based deep neural networks. Our approach processes measurements and point features, i.e. landmarks, from a high-definition digital map to infer the vehicle's pose. To learn the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Nico Engel , Vasileios Belagiannis , Klaus Dietmayer

Localization, that is the estimation of a robot's location from sensor data, is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. This papers presents a version of Markov localization which provides accurate position estimates and which is tailored…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 W. Burgard , D. Fox , S. Thrun

Mobile robots require basic information to navigate through an environment: they need to know where they are (localization) and they need to know where they are going. For the latter, robots need a map of the environment. Using sensors of a…

Applications · Statistics 2007-09-14 Anita Araneda , Stephen E. Fienberg , Alvaro Soto

The navigation system is at the heart of any mobile robot it comprises of SLAM and path planning units, which is utilized by the robot to generate a map of the environment, localize itself within it and determine an optimal a path to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Sudarshan S Harithas , Biswajit Pardia

Vision-based localization for autonomous driving has been of great interest among researchers. When a pre-built 3D map is not available, the techniques of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are typically adopted. Due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yanhao Zhang , Yujiao Shi , Shan Wang , Ankit Vora , Akhil Perincherry , Yongbo Chen , Hongdong Li

We present a heterogeneous localization framework for solving radar global localization and pose tracking on pre-built lidar maps. To bridge the gap of sensing modalities, deep neural networks are constructed to create shared embedding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Huan Yin , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

We present a method for the unattended gray-box identification of sensor models commonly used by localization algorithms in the field of robotics. The objective is to determine the most likely sensor model for a time series of unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Christian Brommer , Alessandro Fornasier , Jan Steinbrener , Stephan Weiss

This paper addresses the issues of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) indoor navigation, specifically in areas where GPS and magnetometer sensor measurements are unavailable or unreliable. The proposed solution is to use an error state extended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Lovro Markovic , Marin Kovac , Robert Milijas , Marko Car , Stjepan Bogdan

This paper presents a framework addressing the challenge of global localization in autonomous mobile robotics by integrating LiDAR-based descriptors and Wi-Fi fingerprinting in a pre-mapped environment. This is motivated by the increasing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Emanuele Pagliari , Luca Davoli , George Nikolakopoulos

Accurate lane localization and lane change detection are crucial in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems for safer and more efficient trajectory planning. Conventional localization devices such as Global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhensong Wei , Chao Wang , Peng Hao , Matthew Barth

Currently, visual odometry and LIDAR odometry are performing well in pose estimation in some typical environments, but they still cannot recover the localization state at high speed or reduce accumulated drifts. In order to solve these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jintao Cheng , Bohuan Xue , Shiyang Chen , Qiuchi Xiang , Xiaoyu Tang