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 …

Past, present, and future of simultaneous localization and mapping: Toward the robust-perception age

C Cadena, L Carlone, H Carrillo, Y Latif… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) consists in the concurrent construction of a
model of the environment (the map), and the estimation of the state of the robot moving …

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 …

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 …

Kimera-multi: a system for distributed multi-robot metric-semantic simultaneous localization and mapping

Y Chang, Y Tian, JP How… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first fully distributed multi-robot system for dense metric-semantic
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Our system, dubbed Kimera-Multi, is …

Towards collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping: a survey of the current research landscape

PY Lajoie, B Ramtoula, F Wu, G Beltrame - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Motivated by the tremendous progress we witnessed in recent years, this paper presents a
survey of the scientific literature on the topic of Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and …

Decentralized multi-robot cooperative localization using covariance intersection

LC Carrillo-Arce, ED Nerurkar… - 2013 IEEE/RSJ …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a Covariance Intersection (CI)-based algorithm for reducing the
processing and communication complexity of multi-robot Cooperative Localization (CL) …

DDF-SAM 2.0: Consistent distributed smoothing and mapping

A Cunningham, V Indelman… - 2013 IEEE international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an consistent decentralized data fusion approach for robust multi-robot
SLAM in dangerous, unknown environments. The DDF-SAM 2.0 approach extends our …

Distributed mapping with privacy and communication constraints: Lightweight algorithms and object-based models

S Choudhary, L Carlone, C Nieto… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We consider the following problem: a team of robots is deployed in an unknown
environment and it has to collaboratively build a map of the area without a reliable …