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ICRA
2003
IEEE
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A system for volumetric robotic mapping of abandoned mines
— This paper describes two robotic systems developed for acquiring accurate volumetric maps of underground mines. One system is based on a cart instrumented by laser range finde...
Sebastian Thrun, Dirk Hähnel, David I. Fergus...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Loop Closing in Topological Maps
— In order to create consistent maps of unknown environments, a robot must be able to recognize when it has returned to a previously visited place. In this paper, we introduce an...
Kristopher R. Beevers, Wesley H. Huang
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Mini-SLAM: Minimalistic Visual SLAM in Large-Scale Environments Based on a New Interpretation of Image Similarity
— This paper presents a vision-based approach to SLAM in large-scale environments with minimal sensing and computational requirements. The approach is based on a graphical repres...
Henrik Andreasson, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilientha...