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A swarm of robots has advantages over a single robot, since it can explore larger areas much faster and is more robust to single-point failures. Accurate relative positioning is necessary to successfully carry out a collaborative mission…
In this paper, we develop a robust, efficient visual SLAM system that utilizes spatial inhibition of low threshold, baseline lines, and closed-loop keyframe features. Using ORB-SLAM2, our methods include stereo matching, frame tracking,…
Place recognition is an important capability for autonomously navigating vehicles operating in complex environments and under changing conditions. It is a key component for tasks such as loop closing in SLAM or global localization. In this…
Camera relocalization, a cornerstone capability of modern computer vision, accurately determines a camera's position and orientation (6-DoF) from images and is essential for applications in augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR),…
Visual place recognition is the task of recognizing same places of query images in a set of database images, despite potential condition changes due to time of day, weather or seasons. It is important for loop closure detection in SLAM and…
Combining lidar in camera-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an effective method in improving overall accuracy, especially at a large scale outdoor scenario. Recent development of low-cost lidars (e.g. Livox lidar) enable…
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…
Robust and accurate state estimation remains a challenge in robotics, Augmented, and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), even as Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (VI-SLAM) getting commoditised. Here, a full VI-SLAM system is…
Place recognition is a critical component in robot navigation that enables it to re-establish previously visited locations, and simultaneously use this information to correct the drift incurred in its dead-reckoned estimate. In this work,…
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its application in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), enabling real-time rendering and high-fidelity mapping. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods often…
An accurate and computationally efficient SLAM algorithm is vital for modern autonomous vehicles. To make a lightweight the algorithm, most SLAM systems rely on feature detection from images for vision SLAM or point cloud for laser-based…
Robot grasping of desktop object is widely used in intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture.Although vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for robotic manipulation, their deployment in low-level grasping faces key…
Localizing pre-visited places during long-term simultaneous localization and mapping, i.e. loop closure detection (LCD), is a crucial technique to correct accumulated inconsistencies. As one of the most effective and efficient solutions,…
Neural field-based 3D representations have recently been adopted in many areas including SLAM systems. Current neural SLAM or online mapping systems lead to impressive results in the presence of simple captures, but they rely on a…
Recent work has shown impressive localization performance using only images of ground textures taken with a downward facing monocular camera. This provides a reliable navigation method that is robust to feature sparse environments and…
Scene coordinate regression achieves impressive results in outdoor LiDAR localization but requires days of training. Since training needs to be repeated for each new scene, long training times make these methods impractical for…
The Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) system has seen significant development in recent years, demonstrating high precision in environments with limited dynamic objects. However, their performance significantly…
In visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), detecting loop closures has been an important but difficult task. Currently, most solutions are based on the bag-of-words approach. Yet the possibility of deep neural network…
Accurate pose estimation is fundamental for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, where Visual-Inertial SLAM (VI-SLAM) provides a cost-effective solution for localization and mapping. However, existing VI-SLAM methods mainly rely on…
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…