Segmatch: Segment based place recognition in 3d point clouds

R Dubé, D Dugas, E Stumm, J Nieto… - … on robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Place recognition in 3D data is a challenging task that has been commonly approached by
adapting image-based solutions. Methods based on local features suffer from ambiguity and …

Planning in the continuous domain: A generalized belief space approach for autonomous navigation in unknown environments

V Indelman, L Carlone… - The International Journal …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
We investigate the problem of planning under uncertainty, with application to mobile
robotics. We propose a probabilistic framework in which the robot bases its decisions on the …

Scaling up gaussian belief space planning through covariance-free trajectory optimization and automatic differentiation

S Patil, G Kahn, M Laskey, J Schulman… - … Foundations of Robotics …, 2015 - Springer
Belief space planning provides a principled framework to compute motion plans that
explicitly gather information from sensing, as necessary, to reduce uncertainty about the …

The complex-step derivative approximation on matrix lie groups

CC Cossette, A Walsh, JR Forbes - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The complex-step derivative approximation is a numerical differentiation technique that can
achieve analytical accuracy, to machine precision, with a single function evaluation. In this …

Automatic differentiation for Riemannian optimization on low-rank matrix and tensor-train manifolds

A Novikov, M Rakhuba, I Oseledets - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2022 - SIAM
In scientific computing and machine learning applications, matrices and more general
multidimensional arrays (tensors) can often be approximated with the help of low-rank …

Automatic multivector differentiation and optimization

L Tingelstad, O Egeland - Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, 2017 - Springer
In this work, we present a novel approach to nonlinear optimization of multivectors in the
Euclidean and conformal model of geometric algebra by introducing automatic …

Automatic differentiation of uncertainties: an interval computational differentiation for first and higher derivatives with implementation

H Dawood, N Megahed - PeerJ Computer Science, 2023 - peerj.com
Acquiring reliable knowledge amidst uncertainty is a topical issue of modern science.
Interval mathematics has proved to be of central importance in co** with uncertainty and …

Motor estimation using heterogeneous sets of objects in conformal geometric algebra

L Tingelstad, O Egeland - Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, 2017 - Springer
In this paper we present a novel method for nonlinear rigid body motion estimation from
noisy data using heterogeneous sets of objects of the conformal model in geometric algebra …

Manifold geometry with fast automatic derivatives and coordinate frame semantics checking in C++

L Koppel, SL Waslander - 2018 15th Conference on Computer …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computer vision and robotics problems often require representation and estimation of poses
on the SE (3) manifold. Developers of algorithms that must run in real time face several time …

A Consistent and Categorical Axiomatization of Differentiation ArithmeticApplicable to First and Higher Order Derivatives

H Dawood - Punjab University Journal of Mathematics, 2020 - journals.pu.edu.pk
Differentiation arithmetic is a principal and accurate techniquefor the computational
evaluation of derivatives of first and higher order. This article aims at recasting real …