An Overview of the Burer-Monteiro Method for Certifiable Robot Perception

A Papalia, Y Tian, DM Rosen, JP How… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper presents an overview of the Burer-Monteiro method (BM), a technique that has
been applied to solve robot perception problems to certifiable optimality in real-time. BM is …

Distributed Simultaneous Localisation and Auto-Calibration Using Gaussian Belief Propagation

R Murai, I Alzugaray, PHJ Kelly… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel scalable, fully distributed, and online method for simultaneous
localisation and extrinsic calibration for multi-robot setups. Individual a priori unknown robot …

iMESA: Incremental Distributed Optimization for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

D McGann, M Kaess - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.07371, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces a novel incremental distributed back-end algorithm for Collaborative
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM). For real-world deployments, robotic …