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Present and Future of SLAM in Extreme Underground Environments
Kamak Ebadi, Lukas Bernreiter, Harel Biggie +28
This paper reports on the state of the art in underground SLAM by discussing different SLAM strategies and results across six teams that participated in the three-year-long SubT co…
LOCUS 2.0: Robust and Computationally Efficient Lidar Odometry for Real-Time Underground 3D Mapping
Andrzej Reinke, Matteo Palieri, Benjamin Morrell +4
Lidar odometry has attracted considerable attention as a robust localization method for autonomous robots operating in complex GNSS-denied environments. However, achieving reliable…
LAMP 2.0: A Robust Multi-Robot SLAM System for Operation in Challenging Large-Scale Underground Environments
Yun Chang, Kamak Ebadi, Christopher E. Denniston +9
Search and rescue with a team of heterogeneous mobile robots in unknown and large-scale underground environments requires high-precision localization and mapping. This crucial requ…
Loop Closure Prioritization for Efficient and Scalable Multi-Robot SLAM
Christopher E. Denniston, Yun Chang, Andrzej Reinke +5
Multi-robot SLAM systems in GPS-denied environments require loop closures to maintain a drift-free centralized map. With an increasing number of robots and size of the environment,…
NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Ali Agha, Kyohei Otsu, Benjamin Morrell +69
This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the DARP…
LOCUS: A Multi-Sensor Lidar-Centric Solution for High-Precision Odometry and 3D Mapping in Real-Time
M. Palieri, B. Morrell, A Thakur +7
A reliable odometry source is a prerequisite to enable complex autonomy behaviour in next-generation robots operating in extreme environments. In this work, we present a high-preci…
Towards Resilient Autonomous Navigation of Drones
Angel Santamaria-Navarro, Rohan Thakker, David D. Fan +2
Robots and particularly drones are especially useful in exploring extreme environments that pose hazards to humans. To ensure safe operations in these situations, usually perceptua…
The Shapeshifter: a Morphing, Multi-Agent,Multi-Modal Robotic Platform for the Exploration of Titan (preprint version)
Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Andrea Tagliabue, Stephanie Schneider +8
In this report for the Nasa NIAC Phase I study, we present a mission architecture and a robotic platform, the Shapeshifter, that allow multi-domain and redundant mobility on Saturn…