activity
20182026
most citedSwarm-SLAM : Sparse Decentralized Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Framework for Multi-Robot Systems

174 citations · 315 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

16 papers

cs.RO2026

Compact Keyframe-Optimized Multi-Agent Gaussian Splatting SLAM

Monica M. Q. Li, Pierre-Yves Lajoie, Jialiang Liu +1

Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communicatio…

cs.RO2026

3D Foundation Model-Based Loop Closing for Decentralized Collaborative SLAM

Pierre-Yves Lajoie, Benjamin Ramtoula, Daniele De Martini +1

Decentralized Collaborative Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (C-SLAM) techniques often struggle to identify map overlaps due to significant viewpoint variations among robots.…

cs.RO2026★ 7 cited

Multi-Robot Decentralized Collaborative SLAM in Planetary Analogue Environments: Dataset, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Pierre-Yves Lajoie, Karthik Soma, Haechan Mark Bong +4

Decentralized collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (C-SLAM) is essential to enable multirobot missions in unknown environments without relying on preexisting localiz…

cs.LG2025

Fantastic Features and Where to Find Them: A Probing Method to combine Features from Multiple Foundation Models

Benjamin Ramtoula, Pierre-Yves Lajoie, Paul Newman +1

Foundation models (FMs) trained with different objectives and data learn diverse representations, making some more effective than others for specific downstream tasks. Existing ada…

cs.CV2024

Frequency-based View Selection in Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction

Monica M. Q. Li, Pierre-Yves Lajoie, Giovanni Beltrame

Three-dimensional reconstruction is a fundamental problem in robotics perception. We examine the problem of active view selection to perform 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstructions w…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Hierarchies define the scalability of robot swarms

Vivek Shankar Varadharajan, Karthik Soma, Sepand Dyanatkar +2

The emerging behaviors of swarms have fascinated scientists and gathered significant interest in the field of robotics. Traditionally, swarms are viewed as egalitarian, with robots…