Localization is an essential capability for mobile robots, enabling them to build a comprehensive representation of their environment and interact with the environment effectively toward a goal. A rapidly growing field of research in this area is visual place recognition (VPR), which is the ability to recognize previously seen places in the world based solely on images. For … [Read more...] about Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial [Tutorial]
Location awareness
Long-Term Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Using a Bayesian Persistence Filter-Based Global Map Prediction
With the rapidly growing demand for accurate localization in real-world environments, visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has received significant attention in recent years. However, those existing methods still suffer from the degradation of localization accuracy in long-term changing environments. To address these problems, we propose a novel long-term SLAM … [Read more...] about Long-Term Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Using a Bayesian Persistence Filter-Based Global Map Prediction
Biomimetic Electric Sense-Based Localization
This article presents a novel localization scheme for free-swimming small underwater robots in a large-scale environment. Accurate localization technology has always been a challenge for small underwater robots since the underwater lighting conditions can limit their vision, while the multipath interference issue occurring near a wall plagues the sonars. By contrast, some kinds … [Read more...] about Biomimetic Electric Sense-Based Localization
