Simultaneous localization and mapping (slam) and data fusion in unmanned aerial vehicles: Recent advances and challenges

A Gupta, X Fernando - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article presents a survey of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and data
fusion techniques for object detection and environmental scene perception in unmanned …

Ntu viral: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint

TM Nguyen, S Yuan, M Cao, Y Lyu… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, autonomous robots have become ubiquitous in research and daily life.
Among many factors, public datasets play an important role in the progress of this field, as …

A systematic literature review on long‐term localization and mapping for mobile robots

RB Sousa, HM Sobreira, AP Moreira - Journal of Field Robotics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term operation of robots creates new challenges to Simultaneous Localization and
Mapping (SLAM) algorithms. Long‐term SLAM algorithms should adapt to recent changes …

SLICT: Multi-input multi-scale surfel-based LiDAR-inertial continuous-time odometry and mapping

TM Nguyen, D Duberg, P Jensfelt… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While feature association to a global map has significant benefits, to keep the computations
from growing exponentially, most lidar-based odometry and mapping methods opt to …

Applications of uwb networks and positioning to autonomous robots and industrial systems

Y Xianjia, L Qingqing, JP Queralta… - 2021 10th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is a mature technology that contested other wireless
technologies in the advent of the IoT but did not achieve the same levels of widespread …

Characteristic evaluation via multi-sensor information fusion strategy for spherical underwater robots

C Li, S Guo - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Currently, most of the existing fusion methods ignore the rich multi-source information of
different types of sensor nodes in the underwater unknown environment, which makes it …

Viral slam: Tightly coupled camera-imu-uwb-lidar slam

TM Nguyen, S Yuan, M Cao, TH Nguyen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled, multi-modal simultaneous localization and
mapping (SLAM) framework, integrating an extensive set of sensors: IMU, cameras, multiple …

Flexible and resource-efficient multi-robot collaborative visual-inertial-range localization

TH Nguyen, TM Nguyen, L Xie - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In multi-robot systems, two important research problems are relative localization between
the robots and global localization of all robots in a common frame. Traditional methods rely …

Relative transformation estimation based on fusion of odometry and UWB ranging data

TH Nguyen, L Xie - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the problem of estimating the four-degree-of-freedom (3-D position
and heading) robot-to-robot relative frame transformation using onboard odometry and …

Miliom: Tightly coupled multi-input lidar-inertia odometry and mapping

TM Nguyen, S Yuan, M Cao, L Yang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter we investigate a tightly coupled Lidar-Inertia Odometry and Mapping (LIOM)
scheme, with the capability to incorporate multiple lidars with complementary field of view …