Semantic communications for future internet: Fundamentals, applications, and challenges

W Yang, H Du, ZQ Liew, WYB Lim… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing demand for intelligent services, the sixth-generation (6G) wireless
networks will shift from a traditional architecture that focuses solely on a high transmission …

A review of collaborative air-ground robots research

C Liu, J Zhao, N Sun - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022 - Springer
The collaboration of heterogeneous robots is a hot topic in multi-intelligent agents,
characterized by wide-area coverage and high environmental adaptability. Compared with a …

Planning the future of smart cities with swarms of fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles using a novel framework

K Kuru - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-self-governing in the aerospace
discipline has been a remarkable research area with the development of the advanced …

Stronger together: Air-ground robotic collaboration using semantics

ID Miller, F Cladera, T Smith, CJ Taylor… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present an end-to-end heterogeneous multi-robot system framework where
ground robots are able to localize, plan, and navigate in a semantic map created in real time …

Camera-LIDAR integration: Probabilistic sensor fusion for semantic mapping

JS Berrio, M Shan, S Worrall… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An automated vehicle operating in an urban environment must be able to perceive and
recognise objects and obstacles in a three-dimensional world for navigation and path …

See-csom: Sharp-edged and efficient continuous semantic occupancy mapping for mobile robots

Y Deng, M Wang, Y Yang, D Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generating an accurate and continuous semantic occupancy map is a key component of
autonomous robotics. Most existing continuous semantic occupancy mapping methods …

[HTML][HTML] Overview of multi-robot collaborative SLAM from the perspective of data fusion

W Chen, X Wang, S Gao, G Shang, C Zhou, Z Li, C Xu… - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the face of large-scale environmental mapping requirements, through the use of
lightweight and inexpensive robot groups to perceive the environment, the multi-robot …

[HTML][HTML] Deep pose graph-matching-based loop closure detection for semantic visual SLAM

R Duan, Y Feng, CY Wen - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work addresses the loop closure detection issue by matching the local pose graphs for
semantic visual SLAM. We propose a deep feature matching-based keyframe retrieval …

[HTML][HTML] CFNet: LiDAR-camera registration using calibration flow network

X Lv, S Wang, D Ye - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
As an essential procedure of data fusion, LiDAR-camera calibration is critical for
autonomous vehicles and robot navigation. Most calibration methods require laborious …

SectionKey: 3-D semantic point cloud descriptor for place recognition

S Jin, Z Wu, C Zhao, J Zhang, G Peng… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Place recognition is seen as a crucial factor to correct cumulative errors in Simultaneous
Localization and Mapping (SLAM) applications. Most existing studies focus on visual place …