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This paper investigates the use of depth images as localisation sensors for 3D map building. The localisation information is derived from the 3D data thanks to the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) algorithm. The covariance of the ICP, and thus…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Thibault Hervier , Silvère Bonnabel , François Goulette

Mobile robots on construction sites require accurate pose estimation to perform autonomous surveying and inspection missions. Localization in construction sites is a particularly challenging problem due to the presence of repetitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Benjamin Krummenacher , Jonas Frey , Turcan Tuna , Olga Vysotska , Marco Hutter

Localization in the environment is an essential navigational capability for animals and mobile robots. In the indoor environment, the global localization problem remains challenging to be perfectly solved with probabilistic methods.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Genghang Zhuang , Carlo Cagnetta , Zhenshan Bing , Kai Huang , Alois Knoll

This paper studies the problem of Cooperative Localization (CL) for multi-robot systems, where a group of mobile robots jointly localize themselves by using measurements from onboard sensors and shared information from other robots. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yizhi Zhou , Yufan Liu , Pengxiang Zhu , Xuan Wang

This technical report outlines the top-ranking solution for RoboSense 2025: Track 3, achieving state-of-the-art performance on 3D object detection under various sensor placements. Our submission utilizes GBlobs, a local point cloud feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Dušan Malić , Christian Fruhwirth-Reisinger , Alexander Prutsch , Wei Lin , Samuel Schulter , Horst Possegger

In many applications, maintaining a consistent map of the environment is key to enabling robotic platforms to perform higher-level decision making. Detection of already visited locations is one of the primary ways in which map consistency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Alexander Millane , Helen Oleynikova , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , César Cadena

This paper proposes an efficient hybrid localization framework for the autonomous navigation of an unmanned ground vehicle in uneven or rough terrain, as well as techniques for detailed processing of 3D point cloud data. The framework is an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ioannis Alamanos , George P. Moustris , Costas S. Tzafestas

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

Radar and lidar, provided by two different range sensors, each has pros and cons of various perception tasks on mobile robots or autonomous driving. In this paper, a Monte Carlo system is used to localize the robot with a rotating radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Huan Yin , Yue Wang , Li Tang , Rong Xiong

Accurate positioning is known to be a fundamental requirement for the deployment of Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs). To meet this need, a new emerging trend is represented by cooperative methods where vehicles fuse information coming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Luca Barbieri , Bernardo Camajori Tedeschini , Mattia Brambilla , Monica Nicoli

Industrial robots are increasingly used in various applications where the robot accuracy becomes very important, hence calibrations of the robot's kinematic parameters and the measurement system's extrinsic parameters are required. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Teguh Santoso Lembono , Fransisco Suarez-Ruiz , Quang-Cuong Pham

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein

Localization in indoor environments is a technique which estimates the robot's pose by fusing data from onboard motion sensors with readings of the environment, in our case obtained by scan matching point clouds captured by a low-cost…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Martin Barczyk , Silvère Bonnabel , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

Traditional place categorization approaches in robot vision assume that training and test images have similar visual appearance. Therefore, any seasonal, illumination and environmental changes typically lead to severe degradation in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Bulò , Barbara Caputo , Elisa Ricci

Localization for autonomous robots in prior maps is crucial for their functionality. This paper offers a solution to this problem for indoor environments called InstaLoc, which operates on an individual lidar scan to localize it within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lintong Zhang , Tejaswi Digumarti , Georgi Tinchev , Maurice Fallon

Cross-modal localization has drawn increasing attention in recent years, while the visual relocalization in prior LiDAR maps is less studied. Related methods usually suffer from inconsistency between the 2D texture and 3D geometry,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Qiyuan Shen , Hengwang Zhao , Weihao Yan , Chunxiang Wang , Tong Qin , Ming Yang

Lidar odometry has attracted considerable attention as a robust localization method for autonomous robots operating in complex GNSS-denied environments. However, achieving reliable and efficient performance on heterogeneous platforms in…

Text-to-point-cloud localization enables robots to understand spatial positions through natural language descriptions, which is crucial for human-robot collaboration in applications such as autonomous driving and last-mile delivery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tianyi Shang , Zhenyu Li

Localization using a monocular camera in the pre-built LiDAR point cloud map has drawn increasing attention in the field of autonomous driving and mobile robotics. However, there are still many challenges (e.g. difficulties of map storage,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xinrui Wu , Jianbo Xu , Puyuan Hu , Guangming Wang , Hesheng Wang

Constructing precise global maps is a key task in robotics and is required for localization, surveying, monitoring, or constructing digital twins. To build accurate maps, data from mobile 3D LiDAR sensors is often used. Mapping requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Louis Wiesmann , Elias Marks , Saurabh Gupta , Tiziano Guadagnino , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss