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One of the hardest challenges to face in the development of a non GPS-based localization system for autonomous vehicles is the changes of the environment. LiDAR-based systems typically try to match the last measurements obtained with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Salvador Dominguez , Gaëtan Garcia , Vincent Frémont , Arnaud Hamon

It's a practical approach using the ground-aerial collaborative system to enhance the localization robustness of flying robots in cluttered environments, especially when visual sensors degrade. Conventional approaches estimate the flying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sijia Chen , Wei Dong

Imitation learning is a promising approach for training autonomous vehicles (AV) to navigate complex traffic environments by mimicking expert driver behaviors. While existing imitation learning frameworks focus on leveraging expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yasin Sonmez , Hanna Krasowski , Murat Arcak

Advancements in LiDAR technology have led to more cost-effective production while simultaneously improving precision and resolution. As a result, LiDAR has become integral to vehicle localization, achieving centimeter-level accuracy through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuze Jiang , Ehsan Javanmardi , Jin Nakazato , Manabu Tsukada , Hiroshi Esaki

Accurate vehicle localization is a crucial step towards building effective Vehicle-to-Vehicle networks and automotive applications. Yet standard grade GPS data, such as that provided by mobile phones, is often noisy and exhibits significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Eli Brosh , Matan Friedmann , Ilan Kadar , Lev Yitzhak Lavy , Elad Levi , Shmuel Rippa , Yair Lempert , Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz , Roei Herzig , Trevor Darrell

Urban environments offer a challenging scenario for autonomous driving. Globally localizing information, such as a GPS signal, can be unreliable due to signal shadowing and multipath errors. Detailed a priori maps of the environment with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Jordan Chipka

Unstructured environments are difficult for autonomous driving. This is because various unknown obstacles are lied in drivable space without lanes, and its width and curvature change widely. In such complex environments, searching for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Joonwoo Ahn , Minsoo Kim , Jaeheung Park

This paper presents an adaptive learning method for data fusion in autonomous driving vehicles. The localization is based on the integration of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) with two Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Global Positioning System…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Farhad Aghili

The demand for accurate localization has risen in recent years to enable the emerging of autonomous vehicles. To have these vehicles in the traffic ecosystem of smart cities, the need for an accurate positioning system is emphasized. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Ghazaleh Kia , Laura Ruotsalainen

Street-to-aerial image geo-localization, which matches a query street-view image to the GPS-tagged aerial images in a reference set, has attracted increasing attention recently. In this paper, we revisit this problem and point out the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sijie Zhu , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen

Multi-sensor fusion is essential for autonomous vehicle localization, as it is capable of integrating data from various sources for enhanced accuracy and reliability. The accuracy of the integrated location and orientation depends on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Changhong Lin , Jiarong Lin , Zhiqiang Sui , XiaoZhi Qu , Rui Wang , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang

Global navigation satellite systems readily provide accurate position information when localizing a robot outdoors. However, an analogous standard solution does not exist yet for mobile robots operating indoors. This paper presents an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xibo Li , Shruti Patel , David Stronzek-Pfeifer , Christof Büskens

In this work, we present LocGAN, our localization approach based on a geo-referenced aerial imagery and LiDAR grid maps. Currently, most self-localization approaches relate the current sensor observations to a map generated from previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Haohao Hu , Junyi Zhu , Sascha Wirges , Martin Lauer

Autonomous navigation based on precise localization has been widely developed in both academic research and practical applications. The high demand for localization accuracy has been essential for safe robot planing and navigation while it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Huifang Ma , Yue Wang , Li Tang , Sarath Kodagoda , Rong Xiong

For autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) deployed in suburban neighborhoods and other human-centric environments the problem of localization remains a fundamental challenge. There are well established methods for localization with GPS, lidar,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Andrew J. Kramer , Christoffer Heckman

In the absence of an absolute positioning system, such as GPS, autonomous vehicles are subject to accumulation of positional error which can interfere with reliable performance. Improved navigational accuracy without GPS enables vehicles to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 J. Humberto Ramos , Jaejeong Shin , Kyle Volle , Paul Buzaud , Kevin Brink , Prashant Ganesh

Deep learning has revolutionized the ability to learn "end-to-end" autonomous vehicle control directly from raw sensory data. While there have been recent extensions to handle forms of navigation instruction, these works are unable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Alexander Amini , Guy Rosman , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

We propose a vision-based method that localizes a ground vehicle using publicly available satellite imagery as the only prior knowledge of the environment. Our approach takes as input a sequence of ground-level images acquired by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Dong-Ki Kim , Matthew R. Walter

Estimating vehicles' locations is one of the key components in intelligent traffic management systems (ITMSs) for increasing traffic scene awareness. Traditionally, stationary sensors have been employed in this regard. The development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Elnaz Namazi , Rudolf Mester , Chaoru Lu , Jingyue Li

Over the last few years, we have witnessed tremendous progress on many subtasks of autonomous driving, including perception, motion forecasting, and motion planning. However, these systems often assume that the car is accurately localized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 John Phillips , Julieta Martinez , Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Sergio Casas , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun