Active mapping and robot exploration: A survey

I Lluvia, E Lazkano, A Ansuategi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simultaneous localization and mapping responds to the problem of building a map of the
environment without any prior information and based on the data obtained from one or more …

A review of visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping from filtering-based and optimization-based perspectives

C Chen, H Zhu, M Li, S You - Robotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (VI-SLAM) is popular research topic in
robotics. Because of its advantages in terms of robustness, VI-SLAM enjoys wide …

RTAB‐Map as an open‐source lidar and visual simultaneous localization and mapping library for large‐scale and long‐term online operation

M Labbé, F Michaud - Journal of field robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Distributed as an open‐source library since 2013, real‐time appearance‐based mapping
(RTAB‐Map) started as an appearance‐based loop closure detection approach with …

Towards fully autonomous UAVs: A survey

T Elmokadem, AV Savkin - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives of realsense and zed depth sensors for robotic vision applications

V Tadic, A Toth, Z Vizvari, M Klincsik, Z Sari, P Sarcevic… - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review paper presents an overview of depth cameras. Our goal is to describe the
features and capabilities of the introduced depth sensors in order to determine their …

-WaLTR: Adaptive Wheel-and-Leg Transformable Robot for Versatile Multiterrain Locomotion

C Zheng, S Sane, K Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptability is a fundamental yet challenging requirement for mobile robot locomotion. This
article presents-WaLTR, a new adaptive wheel-and-leg transformable robot for versatile …

Vision-based goal-conditioned policies for underwater navigation in the presence of obstacles

T Manderson, JCG Higuera, S Wapnick… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present Nav2Goal, a data-efficient and end-to-end learning method for goal-conditioned
visual navigation. Our technique is used to train a navigation policy that enables a robot to …

The deep convolutional neural network role in the autonomous navigation of mobile robots (SROBO)

S Sadeghi Esfahlani, A Sanaei, M Ghorabian… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ability to navigate unstructured environments is an essential task for intelligent systems.
Autonomous navigation by ground vehicles requires developing an internal representation …

A general framework for lifelong localization and mapping in changing environment

M Zhao, X Guo, L Song, B Qin, X Shi… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The environment of most real-world scenarios such as malls and supermarkets changes at
all times. A pre-built map that does not account for these changes becomes out-of-date …

Object-based reliable visual navigation for mobile robot

F Wang, C Zhang, W Zhang, C Fang, Y Xia, Y Liu… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Visual navigation is of vital importance for autonomous mobile robots. Most existing practical
perception-aware based visual navigation methods generally require prior-constructed …