Past, present, and future of simultaneous localization and map**: Toward the robust-perception age

C Cadena, L Carlone, H Carrillo, Y Latif… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) consists in the concurrent construction of a
model of the environment (the map), and the estimation of the state of the robot moving …

A critique of current developments in simultaneous localization and map**

S Huang, G Dissanayake - International Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The number of research publications dealing with the simultaneous localization and
map** problem has grown significantly over the past 15 years. Many fundamental and …

An efficient global optimality certificate for landmark-based SLAM

C Holmes, TD Barfoot - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern state estimation is often formulated as an optimization problem and solved using
efficient local search methods. These methods at best guarantee convergence to local …

CPL-SLAM: Efficient and certifiably correct planar graph-based SLAM using the complex number representation

T Fan, H Wang, M Rubenstein… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we consider the problem of planar graph-based simultaneous localization and
map** (SLAM) that involves both poses of the autonomous agent and positions of …

A sparse separable SLAM back-end

K Khosoussi, S Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a scalable algorithm to take advantage of the separable structure of
simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM). Separability is an overlooked structure of …

RFM-SLAM: Exploiting relative feature measurements to separate orientation and position estimation in SLAM

S Agarwal, V Shree… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The SLAM problem is known to have a special property that when robot orientation is
known, estimating the history of robot poses and feature locations can be posed as a …

Analytical SLAM without linearization

F Tan, W Lohmiller, JJ Slotine - The International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper solves the classical problem of simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) in
a fashion that avoids linearized approximations altogether. Based on the creation of virtual …

Robust pose-graph slam using absolute orientation sensing

S Agarwal, KS Parunandi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is known that in the simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) problem when a
robot's orientation is known, an estimation of the history of its poses can be formulated as a …

Incremental SQP method for constrained optimization formulation in SLAM

F Bai, S Huang, T Vidal-Calleja… - 2016 14th International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) problem has been a research focus for
many years and have reached a mature state. However, more robust solutions to the SLAM …

Comparison of two different objective functions in 2D point feature SLAM

H Wang, S Huang, G Yang, G Dissanayake - Automatica, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper compares two different objective functions in 2D point feature Simultaneous
Localization and Map** (SLAM). It is shown that the objective function can have a …