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SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) seeks to provide a moving agent with real-time self-localization. To achieve real-time speed, SLAM incrementally propagates position estimates. This makes SLAM fast but also makes it vulnerable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Huajian Huang , Wen-Yan Lin , Siying Liu , Dong Zhang , Sai-Kit Yeung

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…

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

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

Accurate and robust simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is crucial for autonomous mobile systems, typically achieved by leveraging the geometric features of the environment. Incorporating semantics provides a richer scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Neng Wang , Huimin Lu , Zhiqiang Zheng , Hesheng Wang , Yun-Hui Liu , Xieyuanli Chen

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of autonomous robots to construct or update a map of an undetermined unstructured environment while simultaneously estimate the pose in it. The current trend towards self-driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 B. Udugama

With the wide penetration of smart robots in multifarious fields, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique in robotics has attracted growing attention in the community. Yet collaborating SLAM over multiple robots still remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Peng Huang , Liekang Zeng , Xu Chen , Ke Luo , Zhi Zhou , Shuai Yu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) stands as one of the critical challenges in robot navigation. A SLAM system often consists of a front-end component for motion estimation and a back-end system for eliminating estimation drifts.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Taimeng Fu , Shaoshu Su , Yiren Lu , Chen Wang

Localization in a pre-built map is a basic technique for robot autonomous navigation. Existing mapping and localization methods commonly work well in small-scale environments. As a map grows larger, however, more memory is required and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Xiaoyu Zhang , Yun-Hui Liu

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

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

Numerous Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms have been presented in last decade using different sensor modalities. However, robust SLAM in extreme weather conditions is still an open research problem. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Ziyang Hong , Yvan Petillot , Sen Wang

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 propose fast and communication-efficient optimization algorithms for multi-robot rotation averaging and translation estimation problems that arise from collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), structure-from-motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yulun Tian , Jonathan P. How

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) play a vital role in autonomous robotics. Robotic platforms are often resource-constrained, and this limitation motivates resource-efficient SLAM implementations. While sparse visual SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Christiaan J. Müller , Corné E. van Daalen

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in slowly varying scenes is important for long-term robot task completion. Failing to detect scene changes may lead to inaccurate maps and, ultimately, lost robots. Classical SLAM algorithms…

The integration of cloud computing and edge computing is an effective way to achieve global consistent and real-time multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Cloud computing effectively solves the problem of limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xin Liu , Shuhuan Wen , Jing Zhao , Tony Z. Qiu , Hong Zhang

In this paper, we aim to design sparse D-optimal (determinantoptimal) pose-graph SLAM problems through the synthesis of sparse graphs with the maximum weighted number of spanning trees. Characterizing graphs with the maximum number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Kasra Khosoussi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

The ability for an agent to localize itself within an environment is crucial for many real-world applications. For unknown environments, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) enables incremental and concurrent building of and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Emilio Parisotto , Devendra Singh Chaplot , Jian Zhang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In search and rescue missions, time is an important factor; fast navigation and quickly acquiring situation awareness might be matters of life and death. Hence, the use of robots in such scenarios has been restricted by the time needed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Malcolm Mielle , Martin Magnusson , Henrik Andreasson , Achim J. Lilienthal