English
Related papers

Related papers: Efficient Multi-robot Active SLAM

200 papers

Object SLAM is considered increasingly significant for robot high-level perception and decision-making. Existing studies fall short in terms of data association, object representation, and semantic mapping and frequently rely on additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yanmin Wu , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Zhiqiang Deng , Wenkai Sun , Xin Chen , Jian Zhang

Multi-robot visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system is normally consisted of multiple mobile robots equipped with camera and/or other visual sensors. The networked robots work independently or cooperatively in an unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Biwei Li , Zhenqiang Mi , Yu Guo , Yang Yang , Mohammad S. Obaidat

Active visual SLAM finds a wide array of applications in GNSS-Denied sub-terrain environments and outdoor environments for ground robots. To achieve robust localization and mapping accuracy, it is imperative to incorporate the perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Suchetan Saravanan , Corentin Chauffaut , Caroline Chanel , Damien Vivet

In many robotics problems, there is a significant gain in collaborative information sharing between multiple robots, for exploration, search and rescue, tracking multiple targets, or mapping large environments. One of the key implicit…

Autonomous exploration requires a robot to explore an unknown environment while constructing an accurate map using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques. Without prior information, the exploration performance is usually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ruofei Bai , Hongliang Guo , Wei-Yun Yau , Lihua Xie

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

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

In unknown non-convex environments, such as indoor and underground spaces, deploying a fleet of robots to explore the surroundings while simultaneously searching for and tracking targets of interest to maintain high-precision data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun Chen , Jiaqing Ma , Philip Dames

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

Multi-robot exploration is a field which tackles the challenge of exploring a previously unknown environment with a number of robots. This is especially relevant for search and rescue operations where time is essential. Current state of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ingo Scheler , Robin Dietrich

Multi-robot rendezvous and exploration are fundamental challenges in the domain of mobile robotic systems. This paper addresses multi-robot rendezvous within an initially unknown environment where communication is only possible after the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Mauro Tellaroli , Matteo Luperto , Michele Antonazzi , Nicola Basilico

In this letter, we address the problem of exploration and metric-semantic mapping of multi-floor GPS-denied indoor environments using Size Weight and Power (SWaP) constrained aerial robots. Most previous work in exploration assumes that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuezhan Tao , Xu Liu , Igor Spasojevic , Saurav Agarwal , Vijay Kumar

Search and rescue with a team of heterogeneous mobile robots in unknown and large-scale underground environments requires high-precision localization and mapping. This crucial requirement is faced with many challenges in complex and…

Safe autonomous exploration of unknown environments is an essential skill for mobile robots to effectively and adaptively perform environmental mapping for diverse critical tasks. Due to its simplicity, most existing exploration methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Aykut İşleyen , René van de Molengraft , Ömür Arslan

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a foundational state estimation problem in robotics in which a robot accurately constructs a map of its environment while also localizing itself within this construction. We study the active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Ilir Gusija , Fady Alajaji , Serdar Yüksel

Environment perception is a crucial ability for robot's interaction into an environment. One of the first steps in this direction is the combined problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). A new method, called G-SLAM, is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Nikos Zikos , Vassilios Petridis

Recent years have witnessed an emerging paradigm shift toward embodied artificial intelligence, in which an agent must learn to solve challenging tasks by interacting with its environment. There are several challenges in solving embodied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhiwei Jia , Kaixiang Lin , Yizhou Zhao , Qiaozi Gao , Govind Thattai , Gaurav Sukhatme

Decentralized collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (C-SLAM) is essential to enable multirobot missions in unknown environments without relying on preexisting localization and communication infrastructure. This technology is…

Motivated by the tremendous progress we witnessed in recent years, this paper presents a survey of the scientific literature on the topic of Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM), also known as multi-robot SLAM. With…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Benjamin Ramtoula , Fang Wu , Giovanni Beltrame

With the deepening of research on the SLAM system, the possibility of cooperative SLAM with multi-robots has been proposed. This paper presents a map matching and localization approach considering the cooperative SLAM of an aerial-ground…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Xuecheng Xu , Zexi Chen , Jiaxin Guo , Yue Wang , Yunkai Wang , Rong Xiong

We propose an autonomous exploration algorithm designed for decentralized multi-robot teams, which takes into account map and localization uncertainties of range-sensing mobile robots. Virtual landmarks are used to quantify the combined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yewei Huang , Xi Lin , Brendan Englot