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5 papers

cs.RO2026

Chalito: An Extensible Library for Filtering-Based State Estimation in Quadruped Robots

Hilton Marques Souza Santana, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro +1

State estimation is essential for quadruped robots, enabling robust locomotion, navigation, and control. While many estimators have been proposed in the literature, existing implem…

cs.RO2026

Iterated Invariant EKF for 3D Landmark-Aided Inertial Navigation

Hilton Marques Souza Santana, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro

Inertial navigation systems aided by three-dimensional landmark measurements constitute a fundamental problem in robotic perception and state estimation. Classical SO(3)-based Exte…

cs.RO2026

Iterated Invariant EKF for Quadruped Robot Odometry

Hilton Marques Souza Santana, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Sven Goffin +4

Kalman filter-based algorithms are fundamental for mobile robots, as they provide a computationally efficient solution to the challenging problem of state estimation. However, they…

cs.RO2024

Proprioceptive State Estimation for Quadruped Robots using Invariant Kalman Filtering and Scale-Variant Robust Cost Functions

Hilton Marques Souza Santana, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Ylenia Nisticò +2

Accurate state estimation is crucial for legged robot locomotion, as it provides the necessary information to allow control and navigation. However, it is also challenging, especia…

cs.RO2024

Panoptic-SLAM: Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments using Panoptic Segmentation

Gabriel Fischer Abati, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Vivian Suzano Medeiros +2

The majority of visual SLAM systems are not robust in dynamic scenarios. The ones that deal with dynamic objects in the scenes usually rely on deep-learning-based methods to detect…