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As the mobile communication network evolves over the past few decades, localizing user equipment (UE) has become an important network service. While localization in line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios has reached a level of maturity, it is known…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Zhiwen Zhou , Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

Device localization and radar-like mapping are at the heart of integrated sensing and communication, enabling not only new services and applications, but can also improve communication quality with reduced overheads. These forms of sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Yu Ge , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Hyowon Kim , Jukka Talvitie , Sunwoo Kim , Lennart Svensson , Mikko Valkama , Henk Wymeersch

Accurately estimating the positions of multi-agent systems in indoor environments is challenging due to the lack of Global Navigation Satelite System (GNSS) signals. Noisy measurements of position and orientation can cause the integrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Frida Viset , Rudy Helmons , Manon Kok

5G millimeter wave (mmWave) signals can be used to jointly localize the receiver and map the propagation environment in vehicular networks, which is a typical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. Mapping the environment is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Yu Ge , Hyowon Kim , Fuxi Wen , Lennart Svensson , Sunwoo Kim , Henk Wymeersch

The accuracy of traditional localization methods significantly degrades when the direct path between the wireless transmitter and the target is blocked or non-penetrable. This paper proposes N2LoS, a novel approach for precise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zhenguo Shi , Yihe Yan , Yanxiang Wang , Wen Hu , Chun Tung Chou

Accurate and robust simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is crucial for autonomous mobile systems, typically achieved by leveraging the geometric features of the environment. Incorporating semantics provides a richer scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Neng Wang , Huimin Lu , Zhiqiang Zheng , Hesheng Wang , Yun-Hui Liu , Xieyuanli Chen

Monocular vision-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is used for various purposes due to its advantages in cost, simple setup, as well as availability in the environments where navigation with satellites is not effective.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Young-Hee Lee , Chen Zhu , Gabriele Giorgi , Christoph Günther

Various autonomous applications rely on recognizing specific known landmarks in their environment. For example, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is an important technique that lays the foundation for many common tasks, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Maarten de Backer , Wouter Jansen , Dennis Laurijssen , Ralph Simon , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Kyle M. Hart , Brendan Englot , Ryan P. O'Shea , John D. Kelly , David Martinez

In this work, we propose a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system using a monocular camera and Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensors. Our system, referred to as VRSLAM, is a multi-stage framework that leverages the strengths and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Thien Hoang Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Multipath-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a promising approach to obtain position information of transmitters and receivers as well as information regarding the propagation environments in future mobile communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Lukas Wielandner , Alexander Venus , Thomas Wilding , Erik Leitinger

In this paper, we investigate a non-lineof-sight (NLOS) sensing problem at terahertz frequencies. To be able to observe the targets shadowed by a blockage, we propose a method using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). We employ a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Furkan H. Ilgac , Emrah Cisija , Aya Mostafa Ahmed , Musa Furkan Keskin , Aydin Sezgin , Henk Wymeersch

We study the problem of high accuracy localization of mobile nodes in a multipath-rich environment where sub-meter accuracies are required. We employ a peer-to-peer framework where the vehicles/nodes can get pairwise multipath-degraded…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Venkatesan. N. Ekambaram , Kannan Ramchandran , Raja Sengupta

We present a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm that is based on radio signals and the association of specular multipath components (MPCs) with geometric features. Especially in indoor scenarios, robust localization from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Erik Leitinger , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch , Klaus Witrisal , Fredrik Tufvesson , Moe Z. Win

Due to 5G millimeter wave (mmWave), spatial channel parameters are becoming highly resolvable, enabling accurate vehicle localization and mapping. We propose a novel method of radio simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Jaebok Lee , Hyowon Kim , Henk Wymeersch , Sunwoo Kim

This paper presents Range-SLAM, a real-time, lightweight SLAM system designed to address the challenges of localization and mapping in environments with smoke and other harsh conditions using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) signals. While optical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yi Liu , Zhuozhu Jian , Shengtao Zheng , Houde Liu , Xueqian Wang , Xinlei Chen , Bin Liang

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

5G mmWave MIMO systems enable accurate estimation of the user position and mapping of the radio environment using a single snapshot when both the base station (BS) and user are equipped with large antenna arrays. However, massive arrays are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Alessio Fascista , Angelo Coluccia , Henk Wymeersch , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

In this paper, we propose an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced hybrid simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that performs Bayesian inference directly on raw radio-frequency (RF) signals while learning an environment model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Alexander Venus , Benjamin Deutschmann , Alexander Fuchs , Christian Knoll , Erik Leitinger

The real-world deployment of fully autonomous mobile robots depends on a robust SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system, capable of handling dynamic environments, where objects are moving in front of the robot, and changing…