Covins: Visual-inertial slam for centralized collaboration

P Schmuck, T Ziegler, M Karrer… - … Symposium on Mixed …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collaborative SLAM enables a group of agents to simultaneously co-localize and jointly map
an environment, thus paving the way to wide-ranging applications of multi-robot perception …

Resilient Decentralized Cooperative Localization for Multi-Source Multi-Robot System

D Wang, H Qi, B Lian, Y Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although cooperative localization (CL) is fundamental to multirobot systems, current
algorithms suffer from the tracking of interdependencies, information fusion from multiple …

Reconros: Flexible hardware acceleration for ros2 applications

C Lienen, M Platzner, B Rinner - … International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robotics applications process large amounts of data in real-time and require compute
platforms that provide high performance and energy-efficiency. FPGAs are well-suited for …

Distributed visual-inertial cooperative localization

P Zhu, P Geneva, W Ren… - 2021 ieee/rsj international …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present a consistent and distributed state estimator for multi-robot
cooperative localization (CL) which efficiently fuses environmental features and loop-closure …

Multidrone systems: More than the sum of the parts

B Rinner, C Bettstetter, H Hellwagner, S Weiss - Computer, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Now that drones have evolved from bulky platforms to agile devices, a challenge is to
combine multiple drones into an integrated autonomous system, offering functionality that …

A Survey on Cooperative Positioning Using GNSS Measurements

R Jin, G Zhang, LT Hsu, Y Hu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advancements of communication technologies and the Global Navigation Satellite
Systems (GNSS), research and development in GNSS-based Cooperative Positioning (CP) …

Scalable recursive distributed collaborative state estimation for aided inertial navigation

R Jung, S Weiss - 2021 IEEE International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel approach to recover outdated cross-covariance between
correlated agents at the moment they perform joint observations. This allows to render …

Modular multi-sensor fusion: A collaborative state estimation perspective

R Jung, S Weiss - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fusing information from multiple sensors in aprobabilistic framework can significantly
improve the estimation of the system's states, allow for redundancy, and for adaptations in …

Range-Aided LiDAR Cooperative Localization and Mapping

P Zheng, Z Li, S Zheng, H Zhang, X Liang… - IEEE Sensors …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The localization and mapping of the robotics team in unknown environments, especially
GNSS denied environments, is a prerequisite for the perception and exploration of unknown …

Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration

CC Cossette, MA Shalaby… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper addresses the problem of decentralized, collaborative state estimation in robotic
teams. In particular, this paper considers problems where individual robots estimate similar …