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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Past, present, and future of simultaneous localization and mapping: Toward the robust-perception age
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Cesar Cadena
  • Luca Carlone
  • Henry Carrillo
  • Yasir Latif
  • Davide Scaramuzza
  • Jose Neira
  • Ian Reid
  • John J Leonard
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1552-3098
Volume 32
Number 6
Page Range 1309 - 1332
Date 2016
Abstract Text Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) consists in the concurrent construction of a model of the environment (the map), and the estimation of the state of the robot moving within it. The SLAM community has made astonishing progress over the last 30 years, enabling large-scale real-world applications and witnessing a steady transition of this technology to industry. We survey the current state of SLAM and consider future directions. We start by presenting what is now the de-facto standard formulation for SLAM. We then review related work, covering a broad set of topics including robustness and scalability in long-term mapping, metric and semantic representations for mapping, theoretical performance guarantees, active SLAM and exploration, and other new frontiers. This paper simultaneously serves as a position paper and tutorial to those who are users of SLAM. By looking at the published research with a critical eye, we delineate open challenges and new research issues, that still deserve careful scientific investigation. The paper also contains the authors' take on two questions that often animate discussions during robotics conferences: Do robots need SLAM? and Is SLAM solved?
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Official URL https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05830
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/tro.2016.2624754
Other Identification Number merlin-id:14064
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