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Generalized spatial modulation (GSM) uses $n_t$ transmit antenna elements but fewer transmit radio frequency (RF) chains, $n_{rf}$. Spatial modulation (SM) and spatial multiplexing are special cases of GSM with $n_{rf}=1$ and $n_{rf}=n_t$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 T. Lakshmi Narasimhan , P. Raviteja , A. Chockalingam

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology enables the construction of environmental maps and localization, serving as a key technique for indoor autonomous navigation of mobile robots. Traditional SLAM methods typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jiantao Feng , Xinde Li , HyunCheol Park , Juan Liu , Zhentong Zhang

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

Graph-SLAM is a well-established algorithm for constructing a topological map of the environment while simultaneously attempting the localisation of the robot. It relies on scan matching algorithms to align noisy observations along robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Giorgio Iavicoli , Claudio Zito

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the task of building a map representation of an unknown environment while at the same time using it for positioning. A probabilistic interpretation of the SLAM task allows for incorporating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Manon Kok , Arno Solin , Thomas B. Schön

A generic modular array architecture is proposed, featuring uniform/non-uniform subarray layouts that allows for flexible deployment. The bistatic near-field sensing system is considered, where the target is located in the near-field of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Chunwei Meng , Dingyou Ma , Xu Chen , Zhiyong Feng , Yuanwei Liu

This paper introduces a novel incremental distributed back-end algorithm for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM). For real-world deployments, robotic teams require algorithms to compute a consistent state estimate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Daniel McGann , Michael Kaess

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) allows mobile robots to navigate without external positioning systems or pre-existing maps. Radar is emerging as a valuable sensing tool, especially in vision-obstructed environments, as it is…

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an essential component of autonomous robotic applications and self-driving vehicles, enabling them to understand and operate in their environment. Many SLAM systems have been proposed in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lorenzo Montano-Oliván , Julio A. Placed , Luis Montano , María T. Lázaro

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

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Kejie Li , Yasir Latif , Ian Reid

As autonomous systems increasingly rely on onboard sensing for localization and perception, the parallel tasks of motion planning and state estimation become more strongly coupled. This coupling is well-captured by augmenting the planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Kristoffer M. Frey , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

This paper develops a real-time decentralized metric-semantic SLAM algorithm that enables a heterogeneous robot team to collaboratively construct object-based metric-semantic maps. The proposed framework integrates a data-driven front-end…

Simultaneous mapping and localization (SLAM) in an real indoor environment is still a challenging task. Traditional SLAM approaches rely heavily on low-level geometric constraints like corners or lines, which may lead to tracking failure in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xueyang Kang , Shunying Yuan

Radio maps are essential for enhancing wireless communications and localization. However, existing methods for constructing radio maps typically require costly calibration processes to collect location-labeled channel state information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zheng Xing , Junting Chen

Mobile robots require basic information to navigate through an environment: they need to know where they are (localization) and they need to know where they are going. For the latter, robots need a map of the environment. Using sensors of a…

Applications · Statistics 2007-09-14 Anita Araneda , Stephen E. Fienberg , Alvaro Soto

The joint optimization of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and camera trajectories has been widely applied in SLAM tasks due to its superior dense mapping quality and consistency. NeRF-based SLAM learns camera poses using constraints by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yicheng He , Guangcheng Chen , Hong Zhang

Estimation under model misspecification arises in many signal processing problems, where the assumed observation model deviates from the true data-generating mechanism due to errors or simplifications. The misspecified Cram\'er-Rao bound…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Malaak Khatib , Nadav Harel , Joseph Tabrikian , Tirza Routtenberg

This paper considers the collaborative graph exploration problem in GPS-denied environments, where a group of robots are required to cover a graph environment while maintaining reliable pose estimations in collaborative simultaneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ruofei Bai , Shenghai Yuan , Hongliang Guo , Pengyu Yin , Wei-Yun Yau , Lihua Xie

In the upcoming sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication systems, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces~(RISs) are regarded as one of the promising technological enablers, which can provide programmable signal propagation. Therefore,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Hyowon Kim , Hui Chen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Yu Ge , Kamran Keykhosravi , George C. Alexandropoulos , Sunwoo Kim , Henk Wymeersch

Recently, beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) has emerged as a more flexible solution to engineer the wireless propagation channels, thanks to its non-diagonal reflecting matrix. Although the gain of the BD-RIS over…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Xiaoqi Zhang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Haijun Zhang