State of the art in vision-based localization techniques for autonomous navigation systems

Y Alkendi, L Seneviratne, Y Zweiri - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision-based localization systems, namely visual odometry (VO) and visual inertial odometry
(VIO), have attracted great attention recently. They are regarded as critical modules for …

Robust SLAM systems: Are we there yet?

M Bujanca, X Shi, M Spear, P Zhao… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Progress in the last decade has brought about significant improvements in the accuracy and
speed of SLAM systems, broadening their map** capabilities. Despite these …

Robotic weed control using automated weed and crop classification

X Wu, S Aravecchia, P Lottes, C Stachniss… - Journal of Field …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous robotic weeding systems in precision farming have demonstrated their full
potential to alleviate the current dependency on agrochemicals such as herbicides and …

A robust UAV system for operations in a constrained environment

M Petrlík, T Báča, D Heřt, M Vrba… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter we present an autonomous system intended for aerial monitoring, inspection
and assistance in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations within a constrained workspace …

An autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle system for fast exploration of large complex indoor environments

V Krátký, P Petráček, T Báča… - Journal of field robotics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper introduces an autonomous system employing multirotor unmanned aerial
vehicles for fast 3D exploration and inspection of vast, unknown, dynamic, and complex …

Airslam: An efficient and illumination-robust point-line visual slam system

K Xu, Y Hao, S Yuan, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an efficient visual SLAM system designed to tackle both short-term
and long-term illumination challenges. Our system adopts a hybrid approach that combines …

AGRI-SLAM: a real-time stereo visual SLAM for agricultural environment

R Islam, H Habibullah, T Hossain - Autonomous Robots, 2023 - Springer
In this research, we proposed a stereo visual simultaneous localisation and map**
(SLAM) system that efficiently works in agricultural scenarios without compromising the …

UAVs beneath the surface: Cooperative autonomy for subterranean search and rescue in DARPA SubT

M Petrlik, P Petracek, V Kratky, T Musil… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a novel approach for autonomous cooperating UAVs in search and
rescue operations in subterranean domains with complex topology. The proposed system …

Gn-net: The gauss-newton loss for multi-weather relocalization

L Von Stumberg, P Wenzel, Q Khan… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Direct SLAM methods have shown exceptional performance on odometry tasks. However,
they are susceptible to dynamic lighting and weather changes while also suffering from a …

Airvo: An illumination-robust point-line visual odometry

K Xu, Y Hao, S Yuan, C Wang… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an illumination-robust visual odometry (VO) system that incorporates
both accelerated learning-based corner point algorithms and an extended line feature …