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Robustness in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains one of the key challenges for the real-world deployment of autonomous systems. SLAM research has seen significant progress in the last two and a half decades, yet many…

Robots navigating indoor environments often have access to architectural plans, which can serve as prior knowledge to enhance their localization and mapping capabilities. While some SLAM algorithms leverage these plans for global…

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in mapping unknown spaces and aiding autonomous navigation. Virtually all state-of-the-art solutions today for 2D SLAM are designed for dense and accurate sensors such as laser…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hanzhi Zhou , Zichao Hu , Sihang Liu , Samira Khan

Multi-robot SLAM systems in GPS-denied environments require loop closures to maintain a drift-free centralized map. With an increasing number of robots and size of the environment, checking and computing the transformation for all the loop…

Recent years have seen a focus on research into distributed optimization algorithms for multi-robot Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM). Research in this domain, however, is made difficult by a lack of standard…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Daniel McGann , Easton R. Potokar , Michael Kaess

Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (CSLAM) is a critical capability for enabling multiple robots to operate in complex environments. Most CSLAM techniques rely on the transmission of low-level features for visual and…

Inter-robot loop closure detection, e.g., for collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (CSLAM), is a fundamental capability for many multirobot applications in GPS-denied regimes. In real-world scenarios, this is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Yulun Tian , Kasra Khosoussi , Jonathan P. How

To achieve collaborative tasks, robots in a team need to have a shared understanding of the environment and their location within it. Distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) offers a practical solution to localize the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Benjamin Ramtoula , Yun Chang , Luca Carlone , Giovanni Beltrame

Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the problem of planning and controlling the motion of a robot to build the most accurate and complete model of the surrounding environment. Since the first foundational work in active…

This survey comprehensively reviews the evolving field of multi-robot collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). As an explicit scene representation, 3DGS has enabled unprecedented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Phuc Nguyen Xuan , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huu-Hung Nguyen , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

The mobile robot relies on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) to provide autonomous navigation and task execution in complex and unknown environments. However, it is hard to develop a dedicated algorithm for mobile robots due to…

With the deepening of research on the SLAM system, the possibility of cooperative SLAM with multi-robots has been proposed. This paper presents a map matching and localization approach considering the cooperative SLAM of an aerial-ground…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Xuecheng Xu , Zexi Chen , Jiaxin Guo , Yue Wang , Yunkai Wang , Rong Xiong

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, commonly known as SLAM, has been an active research area in the field of Robotics over the past three decades. For solving the SLAM problem, every robot is equipped with either a single sensor or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mubariz Zaffar , Shoaib Ehsan , Rustam Stolkin , Klaus McDonald Maier

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of autonomous robots to construct or update a map of an undetermined unstructured environment while simultaneously estimate the pose in it. The current trend towards self-driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 B. Udugama

Combining multiple LiDARs enables a robot to maximize its perceptual awareness of environments and obtain sufficient measurements, which is promising for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). This paper proposes a system to achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jianhao Jiao , Haoyang Ye , Yilong Zhu , Ming Liu

This paper proposes a 3D LiDAR SLAM algorithm named Ground-SLAM, which exploits grounds in structured multi-floor environments to compress the pose drift mainly caused by LiDAR measurement bias. Ground-SLAM is developed based on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xin Wei , Jixin Lv , Jie Sun , Shiliang Pu

This paper presents a detailed examination of low-light visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) pipelines, focusing on the integration of state-of-the-art (SOTA) low-light image enhancement algorithms with standard and…

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental capability required by most autonomous systems. In this paper, we address the problem of loop closing for SLAM based on 3D laser scans recorded by autonomous cars. Our approach…

This paper introduces a novel and distributed method for detecting inter-map loop closure outliers in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The proposed algorithm does not rely on a good initialization and can handle more than two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Arman Karimian , Ziqi Yang , Roberto Tron

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