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The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem addresses the possibility of a robot to localize itself in an unknown environment and simultaneously build a consistent map of this environment. Recently, cameras have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hudson M. S. Bruno , Esther L. Colombini

For robots navigating using only a camera, illumination changes in indoor environments can cause re-localization failures during autonomous navigation. In this paper, we present a multi-session visual SLAM approach to create a map made of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Mathieu Labbé , François Michaud

The environment of most real-world scenarios such as malls and supermarkets changes at all times. A pre-built map that does not account for these changes becomes out-of-date easily. Therefore, it is necessary to have an up-to-date model of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Min Zhao , Xin Guo , Le Song , Baoxing Qin , Xuesong Shi , Gim Hee Lee , Guanghui Sun

Indoor wireless simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is considered as a promising technique to provide positioning services in future 6G systems. However, the accuracy of traditional wireless SLAM system heavily relies on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Ziang Yang , Haobo Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Lingyang Song

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has become a critical technology for intelligent transportation systems and autonomous robots and is widely used in autonomous driving. However, traditional manual feature-based methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhiqi Zhao , Chang Wu , Xiaotong Kong , Zejie Lv , Xiaoqi Du , Qiyan Li

Aerial robots play a vital role in various applications where the situational awareness of the robots concerning the environment is a fundamental demand. As one such use case, drones in GPS-denied environments require equipping with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ahmed Radwan , Ali Tourani , Hriday Bavle , Holger Voos , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the process of constructing a global model of an environment from local observations of it; this is a foundational capability for mobile robots, supporting such core functions as planning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-10 David M. Rosen , Kevin J. Doherty , Antonio Teran Espinoza , John J. Leonard

This paper presents a collaborative implicit neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system with RGB-D image sequences, which consists of complete front-end and back-end modules including odometry, loop detection, sub-map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiarui Hu , Mao Mao , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Accurate localization and tracking are a fundamental requirement for robotic applications. Localization systems like GPS, optical tracking, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are used for daily life activities, research, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yanjun Cao , Chenhao Yang , Rui Li , Alois Knoll , Giovanni Beltrame

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the key components of a control system that aims to ensure autonomous navigation of a mobile robot in unknown environments. In a variety of practical cases a robot might need to travel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Kirill Muravyev , Konstantin Yakovlev

Indoor localization faces persistent challenges in achieving high accuracy, particularly in GPS-deprived environments. This study unveils a cutting-edge handheld indoor localization system that integrates 2D LiDAR and IMU sensors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Saqi Hussain Kalan , Boon Giin Lee , Wan-Young Chung

Complementing images with inertial measurements has become one of the most popular approaches to achieve highly accurate and robust real-time camera pose tracking. In this paper, we present a keyframe-based approach to visual-inertial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Anton Kasyanov , Francis Engelmann , Jörg Stückler , Bastian Leibe

Visual understanding of 3D environments in real-time, at low power, is a huge computational challenge. Often referred to as SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping), it is central to applications spanning domestic and industrial…

2D LiDAR SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is widely used in indoor environments due to its stability and flexibility. However, its mapping procedure is usually operated by a joystick in static environments, while indoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanjing Ye , Guangcheng Chen , Weinan Chen , Li He , Yisheng Guan , Hong Zhang

We present a robust, real-time RGB SLAM system that handles dynamic environments by leveraging differentiable Uncertainty-aware Bundle Adjustment. Traditional SLAM methods typically assume static scenes, leading to tracking failures in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Moyang Li , Zihan Zhu , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

We present WildGS-SLAM, a robust and efficient monocular RGB SLAM system designed to handle dynamic environments by leveraging uncertainty-aware geometric mapping. Unlike traditional SLAM systems, which assume static scenes, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jianhao Zheng , Zihan Zhu , Valentin Bieri , Marc Pollefeys , Songyou Peng , Iro Armeni

Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (CSLAM) is essential for autonomous aerial swarms, laying the foundation for downstream algorithms such as planning and control. To address existing CSLAM systems' limitations in relative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hao Xu , Peize Liu , Xinyi Chen , Shaojie Shen

This paper introduces an innovative approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) in a dynamic environment. The UKF is proven to be a robust estimator and demonstrates lower sensitivity to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Masoud Dorvash , Ali Eslamian , Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental task for numerous applications such as autonomous navigation and exploration. Despite many SLAM datasets have been released, current SLAM solutions still struggle to have…

As the foundation of driverless vehicle and intelligent robots, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) has attracted much attention these days. However, non-geometric modules of traditional SLAM algorithms are limited by data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Rong Kang , Jieqi Shi , Xueming Li , Yang Liu , Xiao Liu