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It is well known that visual SLAM systems based on dense matching are locally accurate but are also susceptible to long-term drift and map corruption. In contrast, feature matching methods can achieve greater long-term consistency but can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xingrui Yang , Yuhang Ming , Zhaopeng Cui , Andrew Calway

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an essential capability for autonomous robots, but due to high data rates of 3D LiDARs real-time SLAM is challenging. We propose a real-time method for 6D LiDAR odometry. Our approach combines…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Visual SLAM algorithms have been enhanced through the exploration of Gaussian Splatting representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. While existing methods perform reliably in static environments, they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Liu , Keyu Fan , Bin Lan , Houde Liu

Lidar SLAM plays a significant role in mobile robot navigation and high-definition map construction. However, existing methods often face a trade-off between localization accuracy and system robustness in scenarios with a high proportion of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yongxin Shao , Aihong Tan , Binrui Wang , Yinlian Jin , Licong Guan , Peng Liao

In this paper, we deal with the problem of creating globally consistent pose graphs in a centralized multi-robot SLAM framework. For each robot to act autonomously, individual onboard pose estimates and maps are maintained, which are then…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Lukas Bernreiter , Shehryar Khattak , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Marco Hutter , Cesar Cadena

With the wide penetration of smart robots in multifarious fields, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique in robotics has attracted growing attention in the community. Yet collaborating SLAM over multiple robots still remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Peng Huang , Liekang Zeng , Xu Chen , Ke Luo , Zhi Zhou , Shuai Yu

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

Autonomous navigation requires an accurate model or map of the environment. While dramatic progress in the prior two decades has enabled large-scale SLAM, the majority of existing methods rely on non-linear optimization techniques to find…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Joshua G. Mangelson , Jinsun Liu , Ryan M. Eustice , Ram Vasudevan

We introduce Go-SLAM, a novel framework that utilizes 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM to reconstruct dynamic environments while embedding object-level information within the scene representations. This framework employs advanced object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Phu Pham , Dipam Patel , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is pivotal in robotics, with photorealistic scene reconstruction emerging as a key challenge. To address this, we introduce Computational Alignment for Real-Time Gaussian Splatting SLAM (CaRtGS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Dapeng Feng , Zhiqiang Chen , Yizhen Yin , Shipeng Zhong , Yuhua Qi , Hongbo Chen

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) is a prevailing technology for many emerging robotic applications. Achieving real-time SLAM on mobile robotic systems with limited computational resources is challenging because the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yao Zhang , Yuyi Mao , Hui Wang , Zhiwen Yu , Song Guo , Jun Zhang , Liang Wang , Bin Guo

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) seeks to provide a moving agent with real-time self-localization. To achieve real-time speed, SLAM incrementally propagates position estimates. This makes SLAM fast but also makes it vulnerable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Huajian Huang , Wen-Yan Lin , Siying Liu , Dong Zhang , Sai-Kit Yeung

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the key robotics tasks as it tackles simultaneous mapping of the unknown environment defined by multiple landmark positions and localization of the unknown pose (i.e., attitude and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Hashim A. Hashim

Indoor wireless simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is considered as a promising technique to provide positioning services in future 6G systems. However, the accuracy of traditional wireless SLAM system heavily relies on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Ziang Yang , Haobo Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Lingyang Song

LiDAR SLAM has become one of the major localization systems for ground vehicles since LiDAR Odometry And Mapping (LOAM). Many extension works on LOAM mainly leverage one specific constraint to improve the performance, e.g., information from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jiaying Chen , Han Wang , Minghui Hu , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

Sparse and feature SLAM methods provide robust camera pose estimation. However, they often fail to capture the level of detail required for inspection and scene awareness tasks. Conversely, dense SLAM approaches generate richer scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Maaz Qureshi , Alexander Werner , Zhenan Liu , Amir Khajepour , George Shaker , William Melek

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is essential for precise surgical interventions and robotic tasks in minimally invasive procedures. While recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have improved SLAM with high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yiming Huang , Beilei Cui , Long Bai , Zhen Chen , Jinlin Wu , Zhen Li , Hongbin Liu , Hongliang Ren

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical task in robotics, enabling systems to autonomously navigate and understand complex environments. Current SLAM approaches predominantly rely on geometric cues for mapping and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yongxu Wang , Xu Cao , Weiyun Yi , Zhaoxin Fan

Autonomous robots in orchards require real-time 3D scene understanding despite repetitive row geometry, seasonal appearance changes, and wind-driven foliage motion. We present AgriGS-SLAM, a Visual--LiDAR SLAM framework that couples direct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Mirko Usuelli , David Rapado-Rincon , Gert Kootstra , Matteo Matteucci

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enabled photorealistic mapping, its integration into SLAM has largely followed traditional camera-centric pipelines. As a result, they inherit well-known weaknesses such as high computational load, failure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jaeseok Park , Chanoh Park , Minsu Kim , Minkyoung Kim , Soohwan Kim