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The burgeoning demand for collaborative robotic systems to execute complex tasks collectively has intensified the research community's focus on advancing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in a cooperative context. Despite this…
SLAM is one of the most fundamental areas of research in robotics and computer vision. State of the art solutions has advanced significantly in terms of accuracy and stability. Unfortunately, not all the approaches are available as…
To execute collaborative tasks in unknown environments, a robotic swarm needs to establish a global reference frame and locate itself in a shared understanding of the environment. However, it faces many challenges in real-world scenarios,…
We consider the problem of autonomous mobile robot exploration in an unknown environment, taking into account a robot's coverage rate, map uncertainty, and state estimation uncertainty. This paper presents a novel exploration framework for…
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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…
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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…
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