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20202026
most citedLidar-level localization with radar? The CFEAR approach to accurate, fast and robust large-scale radar odometry in diverse environments

53 citations · 86 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.RO2026

Graph Theoretical Outlier Rejection for 4D Radar Registration in Feature-Poor Environments

Georg Dorndorf, Daniel Adolfsson, Masrur Doostdar

Automotive 4D imaging radar is well suited for operation in dusty and low-visibility environments, but scan registration remains challenging due to scan sparsity and spurious detec…

cs.RO2026

CFEAR-Teach-and-Repeat: Fast and Accurate Radar-only Localization

Maximilian Hilger, Daniel Adolfsson, Ralf Becker +2

Reliable localization in prior maps is essential for autonomous navigation, particularly under adverse weather, where optical sensors may fail. We present CFEAR-TR, a teach-and-rep…

cs.RO2025

Introspective Loop Closure for SLAM with 4D Imaging Radar

Maximilian Hilger, Vladimír Kubelka, Daniel Adolfsson +3

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) allows mobile robots to navigate without external positioning systems or pre-existing maps. Radar is emerging as a valuable sensing too…

cs.RO2024

Towards introspective loop closure in 4D radar SLAM

Maximilian Hilger, Vladimír Kubelka, Daniel Adolfsson +2

Imaging radar is an emerging sensor modality in the context of Localization and Mapping (SLAM), especially suitable for vision-obstructed environments. This article investigates th…

cs.RO2024

An evaluation of CFEAR Radar Odometry

Daniel Adolfsson, Maximilian Hilger

This article describes the method CFEAR Radar odometry, submitted to a competition at the Radar in Robotics workshop, ICRA 20241. CFEAR is an efficient and accurate method for spin…

cs.RO2023

TBV Radar SLAM -- trust but verify loop candidates

Daniel Adolfsson, Mattias Karlsson, Vladimír Kubelka +2

Robust SLAM in large-scale environments requires fault resilience and awareness at multiple stages, from sensing and odometry estimation to loop closure. In this work, we present T…

cs.RO2022★ 53 cited

Lidar-level localization with radar? The CFEAR approach to accurate, fast and robust large-scale radar odometry in diverse environments

Daniel Adolfsson, Martin Magnusson, Anas Alhashimi +2

This paper presents an accurate, highly efficient, and learning-free method for large-scale odometry estimation using spinning radar, empirically found to generalize well across ve…

cs.RO2022★ 19 cited

CorAl: Introspection for Robust Radar and Lidar Perception in Diverse Environments Using Differential Entropy

Daniel Adolfsson, Manuel Castellano-Quero, Martin Magnusson +2

Robust perception is an essential component to enable long-term operation of mobile robots. It depends on failure resilience through reliable sensor data and preprocessing, as well…

cs.RO2021

Oriented surface points for efficient and accurate radar odometry

Daniel Adolfsson, Martin Magnusson, Anas Alhashimi +2

This paper presents an efficient and accurate radar odometry pipeline for large-scale localization. We propose a radar filter that keeps only the strongest reflections per-azimuth…

cs.RO2021

CorAl -- Are the point clouds Correctly Aligned?

Daniel Adolfsson, Martin Magnusson, Qianfang Liao +2

In robotics perception, numerous tasks rely on point cloud registration. However, currently there is no method that can automatically detect misaligned point clouds reliably and wi…

cs.RO2021★ 5 cited

BFAR-Bounded False Alarm Rate detector for improved radar odometry estimation

Anas Alhashimi, Daniel Adolfsson, Martin Magnusson +2

This paper presents a new detector for filtering noise from true detections in radar data, which improves the state of the art in radar odometry. Scanning Frequency-Modulated Conti…

cs.RO2021

CFEAR Radarodometry -- Conservative Filtering for Efficient and Accurate Radar Odometry

Daniel Adolfsson, Martin Magnusson, Anas Alhashimi +2

This paper presents the accurate, highly efficient, and learning-free method CFEAR Radarodometry for large-scale radar odometry estimation. By using a filtering technique that keep…

cs.RO2021★ 5 cited

NDT-Transformer: Large-Scale 3D Point Cloud Localisation using the Normal Distribution Transform Representation

Zhicheng Zhou, Cheng Zhao, Daniel Adolfsson +4

3D point cloud-based place recognition is highly demanded by autonomous driving in GPS-challenged environments and serves as an essential component (i.e. loop-closure detection) in…

cs.RO2020★ 4 cited

Localising Faster: Efficient and precise lidar-based robot localisation in large-scale environments

Li Sun, Daniel Adolfsson, Martin Magnusson +3

This paper proposes a novel approach for global localisation of mobile robots in large-scale environments. Our method leverages learning-based localisation and filtering-based loca…