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most citedLiDAR Inertial Odometry And Mapping Using Learned Registration-Relevant Features

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7 papers

cs.RO2026

Online Geometric Change Detection via Scene Decomposition

David Thorne, Samuel Jia Cong Chua, Nakul Joshi +4

Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed on long duration single- and multi-session missions in dynamic environments, where the ability to identify environmental changes such as…

cs.RO2026

PinNet: Keypoint-Aware Learned Local Descriptors with Geometric Embedding for Loop Closure in LiDAR SLAM

Yanlong Ma, Nakul S. Joshi, Christa S. Robison +2

Loop closure is essential to reduce drift and build globally consistent maps in large-scale environments. However, reliable loop closure with only geometric information from, e.g.,…

cs.RO2025

Geometric Multi-Session Map Merging with Learned Local Descriptors

Yanlong Ma, Nakul S. Joshi, Christa S. Robison +2

Multi-session map merging is crucial for extended autonomous operations in large-scale environments. In this paper, we present GMLD, a learning-based local descriptor framework for…

cs.RO2025

OptMap: Geometric Map Distillation via Submodular Maximization

David Thorne, Nathan Chan, Christa S. Robison +2

Autonomous robots rely on geometric maps to inform a diverse set of perception and decision-making algorithms. As autonomy requires reasoning and planning on multiple scales, each…

cs.RO2025

Learning Smooth State-Dependent Traversability from Dense Point Clouds

Zihao Dong, Alan Papalia, Leonard Jung +4

A key open challenge in off-road autonomy is that the traversability of terrain often depends on the vehicle's state. In particular, some obstacles are only traversable from some o…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

LiDAR Inertial Odometry And Mapping Using Learned Registration-Relevant Features

Zihao Dong, Jeff Pflueger, Leonard Jung +5

SLAM is an important capability for many autonomous systems, and modern LiDAR-based methods offer promising performance. However, for long duration missions, existing works that ei…

cs.RO2024

Submodular Optimization for Keyframe Selection & Usage in SLAM

David Thorne, Nathan Chan, Yanlong Ma +3

Keyframes are LiDAR scans saved for future reference in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), but despite their central importance most algorithms leave choices of which sc…