1 year, 1000 km: The oxford robotcar dataset

W Maddern, G Pascoe, C Linegar… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a challenging new dataset for autonomous driving: the Oxford RobotCar
Dataset. Over the period of May 2014 to December 2015 we traversed a route through …

Balm: Bundle adjustment for lidar mapping

Z Liu, F Zhang - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A local Bundle Adjustment (BA) on a sliding window of keyframes has been widely used in
visual SLAM and proved to be very effective in lowering the drift. But in lidar SLAM, BA …

Efficient continuous-time SLAM for 3D lidar-based online mapping

D Droeschel, S Behnke - 2018 IEEE International Conference …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern 3D laser-range scanners have a high data rate, making online simultaneous
localization and mapping (SLAM) computationally challenging. Recursive state estimation …

Performance analysis of 10 models of 3D LiDARs for automated driving

J Lambert, A Carballo, AM Cano, P Narksri… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated vehicle technology has recently become reliant on 3D LiDAR sensing for
perception tasks such as mapping, localization and object detection. This has led to a rapid …

[PDF][PDF] Information-Theoretic Planning with Trajectory Optimization for Dense 3D Mapping.

B Charrow, G Kahn, S Patil, S Liu… - Robotics: Science …, 2015 - roboticsproceedings.org
We propose an information-theoretic planning approach that enables mobile robots to
autonomously construct dense 3D maps in a computationally efficient manner. Inspired by …

Targetless extrinsic calibration of multiple small FoV LiDARs and cameras using adaptive voxelization

X Liu, C Yuan, F Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Determining the extrinsic parameter between multiple light detection and rangings (LiDARs)
and cameras is essential for autonomous robots, especially for solid-state LiDARs, where …

Information-theoretic mapping using cauchy-schwarz quadratic mutual information

B Charrow, S Liu, V Kumar… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a computationally efficient control policy for active perception that incorporates
explicit models of sensing and mobility to build 3D maps with ground and aerial robots. Like …

Mobile robotic brickwork: automation of a discrete robotic fabrication process using an autonomous mobile robot

K Dörfler, T Sandy, M Giftthaler, F Gramazio… - Robotic Fabrication in …, 2016 - Springer
This paper describes the implementation of a discrete in situ construction process using a
location-aware mobile robot. An undulating dry brick wall is semi-autonomously fabricated in …

Low-cost retina-like robotic lidars based on incommensurable scanning

Z Liu, F Zhang, X Hong - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High performance light detection and ranging (lidars) are essential in autonomous robots
such as self-driving cars, automated ground vehicles and intelligent machines. Traditional …

Continuous mapping and localization for autonomous navigation in rough terrain using a 3D laser scanner

D Droeschel, M Schwarz, S Behnke - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
For autonomous navigation in difficult terrain, such as degraded environments in disaster
response scenarios, robots are required to create a map of an unknown environment and to …