A survey on aerial swarm robotics

SJ Chung, AA Paranjape, P Dames… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of aerial swarms to solve real-world problems has been increasing steadily,
accompanied by falling prices and improving performance of communication, sensing, and …

Beyond robustness: A taxonomy of approaches towards resilient multi-robot systems

A Prorok, M Malencia, L Carlone, GS Sukhatme… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Robustness is key to engineering, automation, and science as a whole. However, the
property of robustness is often underpinned by costly requirements such as over …

Kimera-multi: Robust, distributed, dense metric-semantic slam for multi-robot systems

Y Tian, Y Chang, FH Arias… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a crucial capability to obtain
timely situational awareness over large areas. Real-world applications demand multi-robot …

DOOR-SLAM: Distributed, online, and outlier resilient SLAM for robotic teams

PY Lajoie, B Ramtoula, Y Chang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve collaborative tasks, robots in a team need to have a shared understanding of the
environment and their location within it. Distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping …

LAMP: Large-scale autonomous mapping and positioning for exploration of perceptually-degraded subterranean environments

K Ebadi, Y Chang, M Palieri, A Stephens… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in large-scale, unknown, and complex
subterranean environments is a challenging problem. Sensors must operate in off-nominal …

CCM‐SLAM: Robust and efficient centralized collaborative monocular simultaneous localization and mapping for robotic teams

P Schmuck, M Chli - Journal of Field Robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Robotic collaboration promises increased robustness and efficiency of missions with great
potential in applications, such as search‐and‐rescue and agriculture. Multiagent …

Data-efficient decentralized visual SLAM

T Cieslewski, S Choudhary… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a powerful tool for
multi-robot applications in environments where absolute positioning is not available. Being …

Omni-swarm: A decentralized omnidirectional visual–inertial–uwb state estimation system for aerial swarms

H Xu, Y Zhang, B Zhou, L Wang, X Yao… - Ieee transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized state estimation is one of the most fundamental components of autonomous
aerial swarm systems in GPS-denied areas; yet, it remains a highly challenging research …

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

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

Search and rescue under the forest canopy using multiple UAVs

Y Tian, K Liu, K Ok, L Tran, D Allen… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a multi-robot system for GPS-denied search and rescue under the forest canopy.
Forests are particularly challenging environments for collaborative exploration and mapping …