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RTISSLAM-3D: Full 6-DoF SLAM With an In-Air 3D Imaging Sonar
Jan Steckel, Vincent Katter, Wouter Jansen
Echolocating bats navigate dense forests using sonar alone, and in-air 3D imaging sonars now capture the entire frontal hemisphere with every pulse. Sonar SLAM, however, has so far…
Hardware-Accelerated Geometrical Simulation of Biological and Engineered In-Air Ultrasonic Systems
Wouter Jansen, Jan Steckel
The deployment of in-air acoustic sensors for industrial monitoring and autonomous robotics has grown significantly, often drawing inspiration from biological echolocation. However…
LLM-Driven 3D Scene Generation of Agricultural Simulation Environments
Arafa Yoncalik, Wouter Jansen, Nico Huebel +2
Procedural generation techniques in 3D rendering engines have revolutionized the creation of complex environments, reducing reliance on manual design. Recent approaches using Large…
Delay-Multiply-And-Sum Beamforming for Real-Time In-Air Acoustic Imaging
Wouter Jansen, Walter Daems, Jan Steckel
In-air acoustic imaging systems demand beamforming techniques that offer a high dynamic range and spatial resolution while also remaining robust. Conventional Delay-and-Sum (DAS) b…
Towards In-Air Ultrasonic QR Codes: Deep Learning for Classification of Passive Reflector Constellations
Wouter Jansen, Jan Steckel
In environments where visual sensors falter, in-air sonar provides a reliable alternative for autonomous systems. While previous research has successfully classified individual aco…
Ruggedized Ultrasound Sensing in Harsh Conditions: eRTIS in the wild
Dennis Laurijssen, Wouter Jansen, Arne Aerts +2
We present eRTIS, a rugged, embedded ultrasound sensing system for use in harsh industrial environments. The system features a broadband capacitive transducer and a 32-element MEMS…
Stabilized Adaptive Steering for 3D Sonar Microphone Arrays with IMU Sensor Fusion
Wouter Jansen, Dennis Laurijssen, Jan Steckel
This paper presents a novel software-based approach to stabilizing the acoustic images for in-air 3D sonars. Due to uneven terrain, traditional static beamforming techniques can be…
Semantic Landmark Detection & Classification Using Neural Networks For 3D In-Air Sonar
Wouter Jansen, Jan Steckel
In challenging environments where traditional sensing modalities struggle, in-air sonar offers resilience to optical interference. Placing a priori known landmarks in these environ…
EchoPT: A Pretrained Transformer Architecture that Predicts 2D In-Air Sonar Images for Mobile Robotics
Jan Steckel, Wouter Jansen, Nico Huebel
The predictive brain hypothesis suggests that perception can be interpreted as the process of minimizing the error between predicted perception tokens generated by an internal worl…
SonoTraceLab -- A Raytracing-Based Acoustic Modelling System for Simulating Echolocation Behavior of Bats
Wouter Jansen, Jan Steckel
Echolocation is the prime sensing modality for many species of bats, who show the intricate ability to perform a plethora of tasks in complex and unstructured environments. Underst…
Detecting and Classifying Bio-Inspired Artificial Landmarks Using In-Air 3D Sonar
Maarten de Backer, Wouter Jansen, Dennis Laurijssen +3
Various autonomous applications rely on recognizing specific known landmarks in their environment. For example, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is an important techniq…
Cosys-AirSim: A Real-Time Simulation Framework Expanded for Complex Industrial Applications
Wouter Jansen, Erik Verreycken, Anthony Schenck +4
Within academia and industry, there has been a need for expansive simulation frameworks that include model-based simulation of sensors, mobile vehicles, and the environment around…
In-Air Imaging Sonar Sensor Network with Real-Time Processing Using GPUs
Wouter Jansen, Dennis Laurijssen, Robin Kerstens +2
For autonomous navigation and robotic applications, sensing the environment correctly is crucial. Many sensing modalities for this purpose exist. In recent years, one such modality…
Automatic Calibration of a Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Pose Estimation System
Wouter Jansen, Dennis Laurijssen, Walter Daems +1
Systems for estimating the six-degrees-of-freedom human body pose have been improving for over two decades. Technologies such as motion capture cameras, advanced gaming peripherals…
Real-Time Sonar Fusion for Layered Navigation Controller
Wouter Jansen, Dennis Laurijssen, Jan Steckel
Navigation in varied and dynamic indoor environments remains a complex task for autonomous mobile platforms. Especially when conditions worsen, typical sensor modalities may fail t…
Physical LiDAR Simulation in Real-Time Engine
Wouter Jansen, Nico Huebel, Jan Steckel
Designing and validating sensor applications and algorithms in simulation is an important step in the modern development process. Furthermore, modern open-source multi-sensor simul…
LatentSLAM: unsupervised multi-sensor representation learning for localization and mapping
Ozan Çatal, Wouter Jansen, Tim Verbelen +2
Biologically inspired algorithms for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) such as RatSLAM have been shown to yield effective and robust robot navigation in both indoor and…