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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

Emerging 3D scene representations, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have demonstrated their effectiveness in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for photo-realistic rendering, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Peng Wang , Lingzhe Zhao , Yin Zhang , Shiyu Zhao , Peidong Liu

According to experts, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an intrinsic part of autonomous robotic systems. Several SLAM systems with impressive performance have been invented and used during the last several decades. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ali Eslamian , Mohammad R. Ahmadzadeh

This paper introduces a large-scale multi-modal dataset captured in and around well-known landmarks in Oxford using a custom-built multi-sensor perception unit as well as a millimetre-accurate map from a Terrestrial LiDAR Scanner (TLS). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifu Tao , Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón , Lintong Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu , Maurice Fallon

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…

This paper proposes the SPARK dataset as a new unique space object multi-modal image dataset. Image-based object recognition is an important component of Space Situational Awareness, especially for applications such as on-orbit servicing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Mohamed Adel Musallam , Kassem Al Ismaeil , Oyebade Oyedotun , Marcos Damian Perez , Michel Poucet , Djamila Aouada

This paper presents a simultaneous localization and map-assisted environment recognition (SLAMER) method. Mobile robots usually have an environment map and environment information can be assigned to the map. Important information for mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Naoki Akai

Ground robots play a crucial role in inspection, exploration, rescue, and other applications. In recent years, advancements in LiDAR technology have made sensors more accurate, lightweight, and cost-effective. Therefore, researchers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yanpeng Jia , Shiyi Wang , Shiliang Shao , Yue Wang , Fu Zhang , Ting Wang

With the rise of deep learning, there is a fundamental change in visual SLAM algorithms toward developing different modules trained as end-to-end pipelines. However, regardless of the implementation domain, visual SLAM's performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Olaya Alvarez-Tunon , Yury Brodskiy , Erdal Kayacan

Multi-modal perception is essential for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, as it enables a comprehensive understanding of the UAVs' surrounding environment. However, most existing multi-modal UAV datasets are primarily biased toward…

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are commonly used in robotic systems for learning maps of novel environments. Brains also appear to learn maps, but the mechanisms are not known and it is unclear how to infer these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Kipp Freud , Nathan Lepora , Matt W. Jones , Cian O'Donnell

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) remains challenging for a number of downstream applications, such as visual robot navigation, because of rapid turns, featureless walls, and poor camera quality. We introduce the Differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Peter Karkus , Shaojun Cai , David Hsu

Achieving monocular camera localization within pre-built LiDAR maps can bypass the simultaneous mapping process of visual SLAM systems, potentially reducing the computational overhead of autonomous localization. To this end, one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Gongxin Yao , Xinyang Li , Luowei Fu , Yu Pan

In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled, multi-modal simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework, integrating an extensive set of sensors: IMU, cameras, multiple lidars, and Ultra-wideband (UWB) range measurements, hence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Inspired by the recent success of application of dense data approach by using ORB-SLAM and RGB-D SLAM, we propose a better pipeline of real-time SLAM in dynamics environment. Different from previous SLAM which can only handle static scenes,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Alex Fu , Lingjie Kong

Versatile and adaptive semantic understanding would enable autonomous systems to comprehend and interact with their surroundings. Existing fixed-class models limit the adaptability of indoor mobile and assistive autonomous systems. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Christina Kassab , Matias Mattamala , Lintong Zhang , Maurice Fallon

Monocular visual SLAM enables 3D reconstruction from internet video and autonomous navigation on resource-constrained platforms, yet suffers from scale drift, i.e., the gradual divergence of estimated scale over long sequences. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yuchen Wu , Jiahe Li , Xiaohan Yu , Lina Yu , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

With the advent of powerful, light-weight 3D LiDARs, they have become the hearth of many navigation and SLAM algorithms on various autonomous systems. Pointcloud registration methods working with unstructured pointclouds such as ICP are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Dominic Streiff , Lukas Bernreiter , Florian Tschopp , Marius Fehr , Roland Siegwart

Recent research on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on implicit representation has shown promising results in indoor environments. However, there are still some challenges: the limited scene representation capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wenhua Wu , Guangming Wang , Ting Deng , Sebastian Aegidius , Stuart Shanks , Valerio Modugno , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Hesheng Wang

The process of simultaneously mapping the environment in three dimensional (3D) space and localizing a moving vehicle's pose (orientation and position) is termed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). SLAM is a core task in robotics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-13 Trevor P. Drayton , Abdul A. Jaiyeola , Nazmul Hoque , Mikhayla Maurer , Hashim A. Hashim