Increasing reliance on automation and robotization presents great opportunities to improve
the management of construction sites as well as existing buildings. Crucial in the use of …

Abstract Knowledge about the own pose is key for all mobile robot applications. Thus pose
estimation is part of the core functionalities of mobile robots. Over the last two decades …

Knowledge about the own pose is key for all mobile robot applications. Thus pose
estimation is part of the core functionalities of mobile robots. In the last two decades, LiDAR …

Lifelong localization in a given map is an essential capability for autonomous service robots.
In this letter, we consider the task of long-term localization in a changing indoor environment …

Conventional sensor-based localization relies on high-precision maps, which are generally
built using specialized mapping techniques involving high labor and computational costs. In …

While 3D LiDAR sensor technology is becoming more advanced and cheaper every day, the
growth of digitalization in the AEC industry contributes to the fact that 3D building information …

This paper presents a real-time, cost-effective navigation and localization framework tailored
for quadruped robot-based indoor inspections. A 4D Building Information Model is utilized to …

Localization for autonomous robots in prior maps is crucial for their functionality. This paper
offers a solution to this problem for indoor environments called InstaLoc, which operates on …

Specifying and solving Constraint-based Optimization Problems (COP) has become a
mainstream technology for advanced motion control of mobile robots. COP programming still …

Many robust state-of-the-art localization methods rely on pose-space sample sets that are
evaluated against individual sensor measurements. While these methods can work …