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Distributed LiDAR SLAM is crucial for achieving efficient robot autonomy and improving the scalability of mapping. However, two issues need to be considered when applying it in field environments: one is resource limitation, and the other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hogyun Kim , Jiwon Choi , Juwon Kim , Geonmo Yang , Dongjin Cho , Hyungtae Lim , Younggun Cho

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

We propose a novel feature re-identification method for real-time visual-inertial SLAM. The front-end module of the state-of-the-art visual-inertial SLAM methods (e.g. visual feature extraction and matching schemes) relies on feature tracks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Xiongfeng Peng , Zhihua Liu , Qiang Wang , Yun-Tae Kim , Myungjae Jeon

Joint optimization of poses and features has been extensively studied and demonstrated to yield more accurate results in feature-based SLAM problems. However, research on jointly optimizing poses and non-feature-based maps remains limited.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yingyu Wang , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang

Adverse weather conditions, low-light environments, and bumpy road surfaces pose significant challenges to SLAM in robotic navigation and autonomous driving. Existing datasets in this field predominantly rely on single sensors or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Weisheng Gong , Chen He , Kaijie Su , Qingyong Li , Tong Wu , Z. Jane Wang

In this letter, we propose MAROAM, a millimeter wave radar-based SLAM framework, which employs a two-step feature selection process to build the global consistent map. Specifically, we first extract feature points from raw data based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Dequan Wang , Yifan Duan , Xiaoran Fan , Chengzhen Meng , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Recent research on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on implicit representation has shown promising results in indoor environments. However, there are still some challenges: the limited scene representation capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wenhua Wu , Guangming Wang , Ting Deng , Sebastian Aegidius , Stuart Shanks , Valerio Modugno , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Hesheng Wang

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

Distance-based reward mechanisms in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) navigation systems suffer from critical safety limitations in dynamic environments, frequently resulting in collisions when visibility is restricted. We propose DRL-NSUO,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mingao Tan , Shanze Wang , Biao Huang , Zhibo Yang , Rongfei Chen , Xiaoyu Shen , Wei Zhang

Point cloud maps generated via LiDAR sensors using extensive remotely sensed data are commonly used by autonomous vehicles and robots for localization and navigation. However, dynamic objects contained in point cloud maps not only downgrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Feiya Li , Chunyun Fu , Dongye Sun , Jian Li , Jianwen Wang

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

Research in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has made outstanding progress over the past years. SLAM systems are nowadays transitioning from academic to real world applications. However, this transition has posed new demanding…

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental task to mobile and aerial robotics. LiDAR based systems have proven to be superior compared to vision based systems due to its accuracy and robustness. In spite of its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Weizhao Shao , Srinivasan Vijayarangan , Cong Li , George Kantor

2D LiDAR SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is widely used in indoor environments due to its stability and flexibility. However, its mapping procedure is usually operated by a joystick in static environments, while indoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanjing Ye , Guangcheng Chen , Weinan Chen , Li He , Yisheng Guan , Hong Zhang

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Liu , Haoxuan Xu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Zhengyang Zhang , Peiyu Zhuang , Pengting Luo , Houde Liu

This paper is a survey work for a bigger project for designing a Visual SLAM robot to generate 3D dense map of an unknown unstructured environment. A lot of factors have to be considered while designing a SLAM robot. Sensing method of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Adheen Ajay , D. Venkataraman

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the process of constructing a global model of an environment from local observations of it; this is a foundational capability for mobile robots, supporting such core functions as planning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-10 David M. Rosen , Kevin J. Doherty , Antonio Teran Espinoza , John J. Leonard

We propose a novel, vision-only object-level SLAM framework for automotive applications representing 3D shapes by implicit signed distance functions. Our key innovation consists of augmenting the standard neural representation by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Li Cui , Yang Ding , Richard Hartley , Zirui Xie , Laurent Kneip , Zhenghua Yu

The integration of neural rendering and the SLAM system recently showed promising results in joint localization and photorealistic view reconstruction. However, existing methods, fully relying on implicit representations, are so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Huajian Huang , Longwei Li , Hui Cheng , Sai-Kit Yeung

Many existing visual SLAM methods can achieve high localization accuracy in dynamic environments by leveraging deep learning to mask moving objects. However, these methods incur significant computational overhead as the camera tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yuhao Zhang , Mihai Bujanca , Mikel Luján