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In this paper, we present SROM, a novel real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system for autonomous vehicles. The keynote of the paper showcases SROM's ability to maintain localization at low sampling rates or at high…

We present a modular robotic system for autonomous exploration and semantic updating of large-scale unknown environments. Our approach enables a mobile robot to build, revisit, and update a hybrid semantic map that integrates a 2D occupancy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Sai Haneesh Allu , Itay Kadosh , Tyler Summers , Yu Xiang

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

This paper presents a novel framework for simultaneously implementing localization and segmentation, which are two of the most important vision-based tasks for robotics. While the goals and techniques used for them were considered to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Kai Wang , Yimin Lin , Luowei Wang , Liming Han , Minjie Hua , Xiang Wang , Shiguo Lian , Bill Huang

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

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

Object SLAM is considered increasingly significant for robot high-level perception and decision-making. Existing studies fall short in terms of data association, object representation, and semantic mapping and frequently rely on additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yanmin Wu , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Zhiqiang Deng , Wenkai Sun , Xin Chen , Jian Zhang

In this paper, we explore the challenging 1-to-N map matching problem, which exploits a compact description of map data, to improve the scalability of map matching techniques used by various robot vision tasks. We propose a first method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shogo Hanada , Kanji Tanaka

This paper presents a simultaneous localization and map-assisted environment recognition (SLAMER) method. Mobile robots usually have an environment map and environment information can be assigned to the map. Important information for mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Naoki Akai

The capability of a mobile robot to efficiently and safely perform complex missions is limited by its knowledge of the environment, namely the situation. Advanced reasoning, decision-making, and execution skills enable an intelligent agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Claudio Cimarelli , Ali Tourani , Holger Voos

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. While point-based SLAM methods provide accurate camera localization, the generated maps lack semantic information. On the other hand, state of the art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Yasir Latif , Trung Pham , Niko Suenderhauf , Ian Reid

In this paper, we propose an autonomous exploration and a tapping mechanism-based material mapping system for a mobile robot in unknown environments. The goal of the proposed system is to integrate simultaneous localization and mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Wonse Jo , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Byung-Cheol Min

Localization is an essential task for mobile autonomous robotic systems that want to use pre-existing maps or create new ones in the context of SLAM. Today, many robotic platforms are equipped with high-accuracy 3D LiDAR sensors, which…

Simultaneous localization and mapping, especially the one relying solely on video data (vSLAM), is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in robotics and computer vision. State-of-the-art vSLAM algorithms are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Andrey Bokovoy , Kirill Muraviev , Konstantin Yakovlev

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in real-time localization for autonomous systems. However, traditional SLAM methods, which assume a static environment, often suffer from significant localization drift…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Haolan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Chenghao Li , Nak Young Chong

In addition to the core tasks of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), active SLAM additionally in- volves generating robot actions that enable effective and efficient exploration of unknown environments. However, existing active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xiangqi Meng , Pengxu Hou , Zhenjun Zhao , Javier Civera , Daniel Cremers , Hesheng Wang , Haoang Li

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms perform visual-inertial estimation via filtering or batch optimization methods. Empirical evidence suggests that filtering algorithms are computationally faster, while optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Amay Saxena , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Joseph Menke , Ritika Shrivastava , Shankar Sastry

The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem addresses the possibility of a robot to localize itself in an unknown environment and simultaneously build a consistent map of this environment. Recently, cameras have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hudson M. S. Bruno , Esther L. Colombini

Inspecting petrochemical pipelines is challenging due to hazardous materials, narrow diameters, and inaccessible locations. Mobile robots are promising for autonomous pipeline inspection and mapping. This project aimed to simulate and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mahta Akhyani

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