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Recent years have seen a focus on research into distributed optimization algorithms for multi-robot Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM). Research in this domain, however, is made difficult by a lack of standard…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Daniel McGann , Easton R. Potokar , Michael Kaess

Real-time dense computer vision and SLAM offer great potential for a new level of scene modelling, tracking and real environmental interaction for many types of robot, but their high computational requirements mean that use on mass market…

Most current LiDAR simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems build maps in point clouds, which are sparse when zoomed in, even though they seem dense to human eyes. Dense maps are essential for robotic applications, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jianyuan Ruan , Bo Li , Yibo Wang , Yuxiang Sun

Where am I? This is one of the most critical questions that any intelligent system should answer to decide whether it navigates to a previously visited area. This problem has long been acknowledged for its challenging nature in simultaneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Loukas Bampis , Antonios Gasteratos

The main contribution of this paper is a new submap joining based approach for solving large-scale Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problems. Each local submap is independently built using the local information through solving a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is used to predict the dynamic motion path of a moving platform based on the location coordinates and the precise mapping of the physical environment. SLAM has great potential in augmented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Thangarajah Akilan , Edna Johnson , Japneet Sandhu , Ritika Chadha , Gaurav Taluja

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) is one of the most essential techniques in many real-world robotic applications. The assumption of static environments is common in most SLAM algorithms, which however, is not the case for most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Han Wang , Jing Ying Ko , Lihua Xie

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been considered as a solved problem thanks to the progress made in the past few years. However, the great majority of LiDAR-based SLAM algorithms are designed for a specific type of payload…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Weikun Zhen , Sebastian Scherer

Visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a key module of robotics and low-speed autonomous vehicles, which is usually limited by the high computation burden for practical applications. To this end, an innovative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Bingxiang Kang , Jie Zou , Guofa Li , Pengwei Zhang , Jie Zeng , Kan Wang , Jie Li

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

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

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has become a critical technology for intelligent transportation systems and autonomous robots and is widely used in autonomous driving. However, traditional manual feature-based methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhiqi Zhao , Chang Wu , Xiaotong Kong , Zejie Lv , Xiaoqi Du , Qiyan Li

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an essential component of robotic systems. In this work we perform a feasibility study of RGB-D SLAM for the task of indoor robot navigation. Recent visual SLAM methods, e.g. ORBSLAM2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 David Prokhorov , Dmitry Zhukov , Olga Barinova , Anna Vorontsova , Anton Konushin

SLAM technology plays a crucial role in indoor mapping and localization. A common challenge in indoor environments is the "double-sided mapping issue", where closely positioned walls, doors, and other surfaces are mistakenly identified as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Chengwei Zhao , Yixuan Li , Yina Jian , Jie Xu , Linji Wang , Yongxin Ma , Xinglai Jin

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a critical role in autonomous robotic systems, especially where accurate and reliable measurements are essential for navigation and sensing. In feature-based SLAM, the quantityand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haolan Zhang , Chenghao Li , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Lijun Wang , Nak Young Chong

Reliability of SLAM systems is considered one of the critical requirements in modern autonomous systems. This directed the efforts to developing many state-of-the-art systems, creating challenging datasets, and introducing rigorous metrics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Islam Ali , Hong Zhang

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be a fundamental capability for intelligent mobile robots. Over the past decades, many impressed SLAM systems have been developed and achieved good performance under certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Chao Yu , Zuxin Liu , Xinjun Liu , Fugui Xie , Yi Yang , Qi Wei , Qiao Fei

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) presents a formidable challenge in robotics, involving the dynamic construction of a map while concurrently determining the precise location of the robotic agent within an unfamiliar environment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Tianrui Liu , Changxin Xu , Yuxin Qiao , Chufeng Jiang , Jiqiang Yu