In recent years, the rapid evolution of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has reshaped global transportation systems, leading to an increase in autonomous shuttle applications in people’s daily lives. Leveraging the accomplishments of our earlier endeavor, particularly Hercules (Liu et al., 2021), an autonomous logistics vehicle for transporting goods, we introduce Snow Lion, an … [Read more...] about Enhancing Campus Mobility: Achievements and Challenges of the Snow Lion Autonomous Shuttle
Location awareness
Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial [Tutorial]
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]
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
