Past, present, and future of simultaneous localization and mapping: Toward the robust-perception age

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…

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  National Centre of Competence in Research Robotics
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  Division of Grants and Agreements

  Award: T04-FSE
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  Division of Arctic Sciences

  Awards: CE140100016, DP130104413, FL130100102