Swarm-slam: Sparse decentralized collaborative simultaneous localization and map** framework for multi-robot systems

PY Lajoie, G Beltrame - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative Simultaneous Localization And Map** (C-SLAM) is a vital component for
successful multi-robot operations in environments without an external positioning system …

Estimation contracts for outlier-robust geometric perception

L Carlone - Foundations and Trends® in Robotics, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Outlier-robust estimation is a fundamental problem and has been extensively investigated
by statisticians and practitioners. The last few years have seen a convergence across …

Toward globally optimal state estimation using automatically tightened semidefinite relaxations

F Dümbgen, C Holmes, B Agro… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, semidefinite relaxations of common optimization problems in robotics have
attracted growing attention due to their ability to provide globally optimal solutions. In many …

Benign landscapes of low-dimensional relaxations for orthogonal synchronization on general graphs

AD McRae, N Boumal - SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2024 - SIAM
Orthogonal group synchronization is the problem of estimating elements from the orthogonal
group given some relative measurements. The least-squares formulation is nonconvex. To …

Spectral measurement sparsification for pose-graph SLAM

KJ Doherty, DM Rosen… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) is a critical capability in autonomous
navigation, but in order to scale SLAM to the setting of “lifelong” SLAM, particularly under …

Block coordinate descent on smooth manifolds: Convergence theory and twenty-one examples

L Peng, R Vidal - ar** (SLAM) is a critical capability in autonomous
navigation, but memory and computational limits make long-term application of common …