Navigation systems help users access unfamiliar environments. Current technological
advancements enable users to encapsulate these systems in handheld devices, which …

The objective of this article is to review the state-of-the-art remote sensing technologies,
including platforms and sensors, the topics representing the primary research interest in the …

Following language instructions to navigate in unseen environments is a challenging
problem for autonomous embodied agents. The agent not only needs to ground languages …

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 …

Image registration is the process of matching, aligning and overlaying two or more images of
a scene, which are captured from different viewpoints. It is extensively used in numerous …

Direct methods for visual odometry (VO) have gained popularity for their capability to exploit
information from all intensity gradients in the image. However, low computational speed as …

Robust object recognition is a crucial skill for robots operating autonomously in real world
environments. Range sensors such as LiDAR and RGBD cameras are increasingly found in …

Today's autonomous drones have reaction times of tens of milliseconds, which is not
enough for navigating fast in complex dynamic environments. To safely avoid fast moving …

Here, we present a general framework for combining visual odometry and lidar odometry in
a fundamental and first principle method. The method shows improvements in performance …

We present a novel, deeply embedded robotics middleware and programming environment.
It uses a multithreaded, publish-subscribe design pattern and provides a Unix-like software …