Present and future of slam in extreme environments: The darpa subt challenge

K Ebadi, L Bernreiter, H Biggie, G Catt… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article surveys recent progress and discusses future opportunities for simultaneous
localization and map** (SLAM) in extreme underground environments. SLAM in …

Lidar odometry survey: recent advancements and remaining challenges

D Lee, M Jung, W Yang, A Kim - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2024‏ - Springer
Odometry is crucial for robot navigation, particularly in situations where global positioning
methods like global positioning system are unavailable. The main goal of odometry is to …

Lvi-sam: Tightly-coupled lidar-visual-inertial odometry via smoothing and map**

T Shan, B Englot, C Ratti, D Rus - 2021 IEEE international …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a framework for tightly-coupled lidar-visual-inertial odometry via smoothing and
map**, LVI-SAM, that achieves real-time state estimation and map-building with high …

LAMP 2.0: A robust multi-robot SLAM system for operation in challenging large-scale underground environments

Y Chang, K Ebadi, CE Denniston… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search and rescue with a team of heterogeneous mobile robots in unknown and large-scale
underground environments requires high-precision localization and map**. This crucial …

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 …

PIN-SLAM: LiDAR SLAM using a point-based implicit neural representation for achieving global map consistency

Y Pan, X Zhong, L Wiesmann… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and robust localization and map** are essential components for most
autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a simultaneous localization and map** …

[PDF][PDF] Cerberus: Autonomous legged and aerial robotic exploration in the tunnel and urban circuits of the darpa subterranean challenge

M Tranzatto, F Mascarich, L Bernreiter… - ar**
Z Liu, F Zhang - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A local Bundle Adjustment (BA) on a sliding window of keyframes has been widely used in
visual SLAM and proved to be very effective in lowering the drift. But in lidar SLAM, BA …

Laser–visual–inertial odometry and map** with high robustness and low drift

J Zhang, S Singh - Journal of field robotics, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present a data processing pipeline to online estimate ego‐motion and build a map of the
traversed environment, leveraging data from a 3D laser scanner, a camera, and an inertial …

Lic-fusion: Lidar-inertial-camera odometry

X Zuo, P Geneva, W Lee, Y Liu… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a tightly-coupled multi-sensor fusion algorithm termed LiDAR-inertial-
camera fusion (LIC-Fusion), which efficiently fuses IMU measurements, sparse visual …