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Mobile robots equipped with multiple light detection and ranging (LiDARs) and capable of recognizing their surroundings are increasing due to the minitualization and cost reduction of LiDAR. This paper proposes a target-less extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Shun Niijima , Atsushi Suzuki , Ryoichi Tsuzaki , Masaya Kinoshita

In this paper, we develop a system for the low-cost indoor localization and tracking problem using radio signal strength indicator, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and magnetometer sensors. We develop a novel and simplified probabilistic…

Decentralized Collaborative Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (C-SLAM) techniques often struggle to identify map overlaps due to significant viewpoint variations among robots. Motivated by recent advancements in 3D foundation models,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Benjamin Ramtoula , Daniele De Martini , Giovanni Beltrame

This letter presents a cooperative relative multi-robot localization design and experimental study. We propose a flexible Monte Carlo approach leveraging a particle filter to estimate relative states. The estimation can be based on…

Despite the number of works published in recent years, vehicle localization remains an open, challenging problem. While map-based localization and SLAM algorithms are getting better and better, they remain a single point of failure in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Luca Mozzarelli , Luca Cattaneo , Matteo Corno , Sergio Matteo Savaresi

We address the problem of robot localization using ground penetrating radar (GPR) sensors. Current approaches for localization with GPR sensors require a priori maps of the system's environment as well as access to approximate global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Alexander Baikovitz , Paloma Sodhi , Michael Dille , Michael Kaess

Whisker-like touch sensors offer unique advantages for short-range perception in environments where visual and long-range sensing are unreliable, such as confined, cluttered, or low-visibility settings. This paper presents a framework for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Prasanna K. Routray , Basak Sakcak , Steven M. LaValle , Manivannan M

Despite the remarkable advances in image matching and pose estimation, image-based localization of a camera in a temporally-varying outdoor environment is still a challenging problem due to huge appearance disparity between query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shen Yan , Yu Liu , Long Wang , Zehong Shen , Zhen Peng , Haomin Liu , Maojun Zhang , Guofeng Zhang , Xiaowei Zhou

Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) will unlock their true potential once they can operate in groups. To this end, it is essential for them to estimate on-board the relative location of their neighbors. The challenge lies in limiting the mass and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Mario Coppola , Kimberly McGuire , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Robust localization in dense urban scenarios using a low-cost sensor setup and sparse HD maps is highly relevant for the current advances in autonomous driving, but remains a challenging topic in research. We present a novel monocular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Kürsat Petek , Kshitij Sirohi , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard

Most of the existing 3D human pose estimation approaches mainly focus on predicting 3D positional relationships between the root joint and other human joints (local motion) instead of the overall trajectory of the human body (global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wenkang Shan , Haopeng Lu , Shanshe Wang , Xinfeng Zhang , Wen Gao

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has shown remarkable potential as a low-cost general solution for robot localization. However, limitations of the UWB signal for precise positioning arise from the disturbances caused by the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Umberto Albertin , Mauro Martini , Alessandro Navone , Marcello Chiaberge

Accurate 6D object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation and grasping. Previous methods follow a local optimization approach which minimizes the distance between closest point pairs to handle the rotation ambiguity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Meng Tian , Liang Pan , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

This work provides a theoretical analysis for optimally solving the pose estimation problem using total least squares for vector observations from landmark features, which is central to applications involving simultaneous localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Saeed Maleki , Adhiti Raman , Yang Cheng , John Crassidis , Matthias Schmid

Continuously optimizing sensor placement is essential for precise target localization in various military and civilian applications. While information theory has shown promise in optimizing sensor placement, many studies oversimplify sensor…

Relative localization in the near-field scenario is critically important for unmanned vehicle (UxV) applications. Although related works addressing 2D relative localization problem have been widely studied for unmanned ground vehicles…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Qiangsheng Gao , Ka Ho Cheng , Li Qiu , Zijun Gong

This paper studies a coordinate alignment problem for cooperative mobile sensor network localization with range-based measurements. The network consists of target nodes, each of which has only access position information in a local fixed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Keyou You , Qizhu Chen , Pei Xie , Shiji Song

Localization plays a crucial role in the navigation capabilities of autonomous robots, and while indoor environments can rely on wheel odometry and 2D LiDAR-based mapping, outdoor settings such as agriculture and forestry, present unique…

Decentralized control of mobile robotic sensor networks is a fundamental problem in robotics that has attracted intensive research in recent decades. Most of the existing works dealt with two-dimensional spaces. This report is concerned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Vali Nazarzehi

This paper proposes a novel algorithm to determine the optimal placement of redundant inertial sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes (gyros) for increasing the sensing accuracy. In this paper, we have proposed a novel iterative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Nitesh Sahu , Prabhu Babu , Arun Kumar , Rajendar Bahl