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Autonomous exploration of unknown space is an essential component for the deployment of mobile robots in the real world. Safe navigation is crucial for all robotics applications and requires accurate and consistent maps of the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sotiris Papatheodorou , Simon Boche , Sebastián Barbas Laina , Stefan Leutenegger

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is critical to the implementation of autonomous driving. Most LiDAR-inertial SLAM algorithms assume a static environment, leading to unreliable localization in dynamic environments. Moreover, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhongyang Zhu , Junqiao Zhao , Kai Huang , Xuebo Tian , Jiaye Lin , Chen Ye

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays an important role in many robotics fields, including social robots. Many of the available visual SLAM methods are based on the assumption of a static world and struggle in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mobin Habibpour , Alireza Nemati , Ali Meghdari , Alireza Taheri , Shima Nazari

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be a fundamental capability for intelligent mobile robots. Over the past decades, many impressed SLAM systems have been developed and achieved good performance under certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Chao Yu , Zuxin Liu , Xinjun Liu , Fugui Xie , Yi Yang , Qi Wei , Qiao Fei

Decentralized multi-robot LiDAR-SLAM is essential for collaborative missions but faces significant challenges in maintaining global consistency. Existing frameworks predominantly rely on local-search optimization or one-time coordinate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Baoshan Song , Feng Huang , Li-Ta Hsu

Due to budgetary constraints, indoor navigation typically employs 2D LiDAR rather than 3D LiDAR. However, the utilization of 2D LiDAR in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) frequently encounters challenges related to motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Bin Zhang , Zexin Peng , Bi Zeng , Junjie Lu

Monocular cameras coupled with inertial measurements generally give high performance visual inertial odometry. However, drift can be significant with long trajectories, especially when the environment is visually challenging. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Yanjun Cao , Giovanni Beltrame

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Robot navigation technology is required to accomplish difficult tasks in various environments. In navigation, it is necessary to know the information of the external environments and the state of the robot under the environment. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Indoor localization faces persistent challenges in achieving high accuracy, particularly in GPS-deprived environments. This study unveils a cutting-edge handheld indoor localization system that integrates 2D LiDAR and IMU sensors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Saqi Hussain Kalan , Boon Giin Lee , Wan-Young Chung

We present SLAIM - Simultaneous Localization and Implicit Mapping. We propose a novel coarse-to-fine tracking model tailored for Neural Radiance Field SLAM (NeRF-SLAM) to achieve state-of-the-art tracking performance. Notably, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Vincent Cartillier , Grant Schindler , Irfan Essa

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xin Liu , Shuhuan Wen , Jing Zhao , Tony Z. Qiu , Hong Zhang

We have proposed, to the best of our knowledge, the first-of-its-kind LiDAR-Inertial-Visual-Fused simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system with a strong place recognition capacity. Our proposed SLAM system is consist of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Kangcheng Liu

In the absence of external reference position information (e.g. GNSS) SLAM has proven to be an effective method for indoor navigation. The positioning drift can be reduced with regular loop-closures and global relaxation as the backend,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Jacky C. K. Chow

This paper presents a novel fusion technique for LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), aimed at improving localization and 3D mapping using LiDAR sensor. Our approach centers on the Inferred Attention Fusion (INAF) module,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zahra Arjmandi , Gunho Sohn

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the essential techniques and functionalities used by robots to perform autonomous navigation tasks. Inspired by the rodent hippocampus, this paper presents a biologically inspired SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Genghang Zhuang , Zhenshan Bing , Yuhong Huang , Kai Huang , Alois Knoll

Combining Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) estimation and dynamic scene modelling can highly benefit robot autonomy in dynamic environments. Robot path planning and obstacle avoidance tasks rely on accurate estimations of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Jun Zhang , Mina Henein , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila

Currently, mobile robots are developing rapidly and are finding numerous applications in the industry. However, several problems remain related to their practical use, such as the need for expensive hardware and high power consumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Taekyung Kim , Seunghyun Lim , Gwanjun Shin , Geonhee Sim , Dongwon Yun

LiDAR-based SLAM is recognized as one effective method to offer localization guidance in rough environments. However, off-the-shelf LiDAR-based SLAM methods suffer from significant pose estimation drifts, particularly components relevant to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yinchuan Wang , Bin Ren , Xiang Zhang , Pengyu Wang , Chaoqun Wang , Rui Song , Yibin Li , Max Q. -H. Meng