English
Related papers

Related papers: A Decentralized LiDAR-SLAM System with Certifiably…

200 papers

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has wide robotic applications such as autonomous driving and unmanned aerial vehicles. Both computational efficiency and localization accuracy are of great importance towards a good SLAM system.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Chun-Lin Chen , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we present a factor-graph LiDAR-SLAM system which incorporates a state-of-the-art deeply learned feature-based loop closure detector to enable a legged robot to localize and map in industrial environments. These facilities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Milad Ramezani , Georgi Tinchev , Egor Iuganov , Maurice Fallon

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are fundamental building blocks for any autonomous robot navigating in unknown environments. The SLAM implementation heavily depends on the sensor modality employed on the mobile…

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

Ego-pose estimation and dynamic object tracking are two critical problems for autonomous driving systems. The solutions to these problems are generally based on their respective assumptions, \ie{the static world assumption for simultaneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xuebo Tian , Zhongyang Zhu , Junqiao Zhao , Gengxuan Tian , Chen Ye

The concept of continuous-time trajectory representation has brought increased accuracy and efficiency to multi-modal sensor fusion in modern SLAM. However, regardless of these advantages, its offline property caused by the requirement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Chanoh Park , Peyman Moghadam , Soohwan Kim , Alberto Elfes , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

We propose a novel approach for fast and accurate stereo visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) independent of feature detection and matching. We extend monocular Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) to a stereo system by optimizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jiawei Mo , Md Jahidul Islam , Junaed Sattar

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) stands as one of the critical challenges in robot navigation. A SLAM system often consists of a front-end component for motion estimation and a back-end system for eliminating estimation drifts.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Taimeng Fu , Shaoshu Su , Yiren Lu , Chen Wang

Pose graph optimization (PGO) is a well-known technique for solving the pose-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. In this paper, we represent the rotation and translation by a unit quaternion and a three-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Xin Chen , Chunfeng Cui , Deren Han , Liqun Qi

Accurate and robust localization and mapping are essential components for most autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a SLAM system for building globally consistent maps, called PIN-SLAM, that is based on an elastic and compact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yue Pan , Xingguang Zhong , Louis Wiesmann , Thorbjörn Posewsky , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Consistent maps are key for most autonomous mobile robots, and they often use SLAM approaches to build such maps. Loop closures via place recognition help to maintain accurate pose estimates by mitigating global drift, and are thus key for…

Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) enables a robot team to achieve coordinated tasks by relying on a common map of the environment. Constructing a map by centralized processing of the robot observations is undesirable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hanwen Cao , Sriram Shreedharan , Nikolay Atanasov

In this paper, we present SROM, a novel real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system for autonomous vehicles. The keynote of the paper showcases SROM's ability to maintain localization at low sampling rates or at high…

Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM) enables multiple agents to work together in mapping unknown environments while simultaneously estimating their own positions. This approach enhances robustness, scalability, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Joshua Bird , Jan Blumenkamp , Amanda Prorok

The ability to estimate pose and generate maps using 3D LiDAR significantly enhances robotic system autonomy. However, existing open-source datasets lack representation of geometrically degenerate environments, limiting the development and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhiqiang Chen , Yuhua Qi , Dapeng Feng , Xuebin Zhuang , Hongbo Chen , Xiangcheng Hu , Jin Wu , Kelin Peng , Peng Lu

The mobile robot relies on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) to provide autonomous navigation and task execution in complex and unknown environments. However, it is hard to develop a dedicated algorithm for mobile robots due to…

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an essential component of autonomous robotic applications and self-driving vehicles, enabling them to understand and operate in their environment. Many SLAM systems have been proposed in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lorenzo Montano-Oliván , Julio A. Placed , Luis Montano , María T. Lázaro

Combining multiple LiDARs enables a robot to maximize its perceptual awareness of environments and obtain sufficient measurements, which is promising for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). This paper proposes a system to achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jianhao Jiao , Haoyang Ye , Yilong Zhu , Ming Liu