This paper presents a method of estimating camera pose in an unknown scene. While this has previously been attempted by adapting SLAM algorithms developed for robotic exploration, we propose a system specifically designed to track a hand-held camera in a small AR workspace. We propose to split tracking and mapping into two separate tasks, processed in parallel threads on a dual-core computer: one thread deals with the task of robustly tracking erratic hand-held motion, while the other produces a 3D map of point features from previously observed video frames. This allows the use of computationally expensive batch optimisation techniques not usually associated with real-time operation: The result is a system that produces detailed maps with thousands of landmarks which can be tracked at frame-rate, with an accuracy and robustness rivalling that of state-of-the-art model-based systems.

Figure 1: Example output from our system, generated in real-time with a handheld Kinect depth camera and no other sensing infrastructure. Normal maps (colour) and Phong-shaded renderings (greyscale) from our dense reconstruction system are shown. On the left for comparison is an example of the live, incomplete, and noisy data from the Kinect sensor (used as input to our system).

This paper presents ORB-SLAM, a feature-based monocular SLAM system that operates in real time, in small and large, indoor and outdoor environments. The system is robust to severe motion clutter, allows wide baseline loop closing and relocalization, and includes full automatic initialization. Building on excellent algorithms of recent years, we designed from scratch a novel system that uses the same features for all SLAM tasks: tracking, mapping, relocalization, and loop closing. A survival of the fittest strategy that selects the points and keyframes of the reconstruction leads to excellent robustness and generates a compact and trackable map that only grows if the scene content changes, allowing lifelong operation. We present an exhaustive evaluation in 27 sequences from the most popular datasets. ORB-SLAM achieves unprecedented performance with respect to other state-of-the-art monocular SLAM approaches. For the benefit of the community, we make the source code public.

This paper presents ORB-SLAM3, the first system able to perform visual, visual-inertial and multi-map SLAM with monocular, stereo and RGB-D cameras, using pin-hole and fisheye lens models.The first main novelty is a feature-based tightly-integrated visual-inertial SLAM system that fully relies on Maximum-a-Posteriori (MAP) estimation, even during the IMU initialization phase. The result is a system that operates robustly in real time, in small and large, indoor and outdoor environments, and is two to ten times more accurate than previous approaches.The second main novelty is a multiple map system that relies on a new place recognition method with improved recall. Thanks to it, ORB-SLAM3 is able to survive to long periods of poor visual information: when it gets lost, it starts a new map that will be seamlessly merged with previous maps when revisiting mapped areas. Compared with visual odometry systems that only use information from the last few seconds, ORB-SLAM3 is the first system able to reuse in all the algorithm stages all previous information. This allows to include in bundle adjustment co-visible keyframes, that provide high parallax observations boosting accuracy, even if they are widely separated in time or if they come from a previous mapping session.Our experiments show that, in all sensor configurations, ORB-SLAM3 is as robust as the best systems available in the literature, and significantly more accurate. Notably, our stereo-inertial SLAM achieves an average accuracy of 3.5 cm in the EuRoC drone and 9 mm under quick hand-held motions in the room of TUM-VI dataset, a setting representative of AR/VR scenarios. For the benefit of the community we make public the source code.

结合同时定位和映射（SLAM）估计和动态场景建模可以高效地在动态环境中获得机器人自主权。机器人路径规划和障碍避免任务依赖于场景中动态对象运动的准确估计。本文介绍了VDO-SLAM，这是一种强大的视觉动态对象感知SLAM系统，用于利用语义信息，使得能够在场景中进行准确的运动估计和跟踪动态刚性物体，而无需任何先前的物体形状或几何模型的知识。所提出的方法识别和跟踪环境中的动态对象和静态结构，并将这些信息集成到统一的SLAM框架中。这导致机器人轨迹的高度准确估计和对象的全部SE（3）运动以及环境的时空地图。该系统能够从对象的SE（3）运动中提取线性速度估计，为复杂的动态环境中的导航提供重要功能。我们展示了所提出的系统对许多真实室内和室外数据集的性能，结果表明了对最先进的算法的一致和实质性的改进。可以使用源代码的开源版本。

在这项工作中，我们探讨了对物体在看不见的世界中同时本地化和映射中的使用，并提出了一个对象辅助系统（OA-Slam）。更确切地说，我们表明，与低级点相比，物体的主要好处在于它们的高级语义和歧视力。相反，要点比代表对象（Cuboid或椭圆形）的通用粗模型具有更好的空间定位精度。我们表明，将点和对象组合非常有趣，可以解决相机姿势恢复的问题。我们的主要贡献是：（1）我们使用高级对象地标提高了SLAM系统的重新定位能力； （2）我们构建了一个能够使用3D椭圆形识别，跟踪和重建对象的自动系统； （3）我们表明，基于对象的本地化可用于重新初始化或恢复相机跟踪。我们的全自动系统允许对象映射和增强姿势跟踪恢复，我们认为这可以极大地受益于AR社区。我们的实验表明，可以从经典方法失败的视点重新定位相机。我们证明，尽管跟踪损失损失，但这种本地化使SLAM系统仍可以继续工作，而这种损失可能会经常发生在不理会的用户中。我们的代码和测试数据在gitlab.inria.fr/tangram/oa-slam上发布。

A monocular visual-inertial system (VINS), consisting of a camera and a low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU), forms the minimum sensor suite for metric six degreesof-freedom (DOF) state estimation. However, the lack of direct distance measurement poses significant challenges in terms of IMU processing, estimator initialization, extrinsic calibration, and nonlinear optimization. In this work, we present VINS-Mono: a robust and versatile monocular visual-inertial state estimator. Our approach starts with a robust procedure for estimator initialization and failure recovery. A tightly-coupled, nonlinear optimization-based method is used to obtain high accuracy visual-inertial odometry by fusing pre-integrated IMU measurements and feature observations. A loop detection module, in combination with our tightly-coupled formulation, enables relocalization with minimum computation overhead. We additionally perform four degrees-of-freedom pose graph optimization to enforce global consistency. We validate the performance of our system on public datasets and real-world experiments and compare against other state-of-the-art algorithms. We also perform onboard closed-loop autonomous flight on the MAV platform and port the algorithm to an iOS-based demonstration. We highlight that the proposed work is a reliable, complete, and versatile system that is applicable for different applications that require high accuracy localization. We open source our implementations for both PCs 1 and iOS mobile devices 2 .

现代计算机视觉已超越了互联网照片集的领域，并进入了物理世界，通过非结构化的环境引导配备摄像头的机器人和自动驾驶汽车。为了使这些体现的代理与现实世界对象相互作用，相机越来越多地用作深度传感器，重建了各种下游推理任务的环境。机器学习辅助的深度感知或深度估计会预测图像中每个像素的距离。尽管已经在深入估算中取得了令人印象深刻的进步，但仍然存在重大挑战：（1）地面真相深度标签很难大规模收集，（2）通常认为相机信息是已知的，但通常是不可靠的，并且（3）限制性摄像机假设很常见，即使在实践中使用了各种各样的相机类型和镜头。在本论文中，我们专注于放松这些假设，并描述将相机变成真正通用深度传感器的最终目标的贡献。

摄像机是自动化驱动系统中的主要传感器。它们提供高信息密度，并对检测为人类视野提供的道路基础设施线索最优。环绕式摄像机系统通常包括具有190 {\ DEG} +视野的四个鱼眼相机，覆盖在车辆周围的整个360 {\ DEG}集中在近场传感上。它们是低速，高精度和近距离传感应用的主要传感器，如自动停车，交通堵塞援助和低速应急制动。在这项工作中，我们提供了对这种视觉系统的详细调查，在可以分解为四个模块化组件的架构中，设置调查即可识别，重建，重建和重组。我们共同称之为4R架构。我们讨论每个组件如何完成特定方面，并提供一个位置论证，即它们可以协同组织以形成用于低速自动化的完整感知系统。我们通过呈现来自以前的作品的结果，并通过向此类系统提出架构提案来支持此参数。定性结果在视频中呈现在HTTPS://youtu.be/ae8bcof7777uy中。

培训和测试监督对象检测模型需要大量带有地面真相标签的图像。标签定义图像中的对象类及其位置，形状以及可能的其他信息，例如姿势。即使存在人力，标签过程也非常耗时。我们引入了一个新的标签工具，用于2D图像以及3D三角网格：3D标记工具（3DLT）。这是一个独立的，功能丰富和跨平台软件，不需要安装，并且可以在Windows，MacOS和基于Linux的发行版上运行。我们不再像当前工具那样在每个图像上分别标记相同的对象，而是使用深度信息从上述图像重建三角形网格，并仅在上述网格上标记一次对象。我们使用注册来简化3D标记，离群值检测来改进2D边界框的计算和表面重建，以将标记可能性扩展到大点云。我们的工具经过最先进的方法测试，并且在保持准确性和易用性的同时，它极大地超过了它们。

a) Stereo input: trajectory and sparse reconstruction of an urban environment with multiple loop closures. (b) RGB-D input: keyframes and dense pointcloud of a room scene with one loop closure. The pointcloud is rendered by backprojecting the sensor depth maps from estimated keyframe poses. No fusion is performed.

Compared to regular cameras, Dynamic Vision Sensors or Event Cameras can output compact visual data based on a change in the intensity in each pixel location asynchronously. In this paper, we study the application of current image-based SLAM techniques to these novel sensors. To this end, the information in adaptively selected event windows is processed to form motion-compensated images. These images are then used to reconstruct the scene and estimate the 6-DOF pose of the camera. We also propose an inertial version of the event-only pipeline to assess its capabilities. We compare the results of different configurations of the proposed algorithm against the ground truth for sequences of two publicly available event datasets. We also compare the results of the proposed event-inertial pipeline with the state-of-the-art and show it can produce comparable or more accurate results provided the map estimate is reliable.

通常，非刚性登记的问题是匹配在两个不同点拍摄的动态对象的两个不同扫描。这些扫描可以进行刚性动作和非刚性变形。由于模型的新部分可能进入视图，而其他部件在两个扫描之间堵塞，则重叠区域是两个扫描的子集。在最常规的设置中，没有给出先前的模板形状，并且没有可用的标记或显式特征点对应关系。因此，这种情况是局部匹配问题，其考虑了随后的扫描在具有大量重叠区域的情况下进行的扫描经历的假设[28]。本文在环境中寻址的问题是同时在环境中映射变形对象和本地化摄像机。

同时定位和映射（SLAM）对于自主机器人（例如自动驾驶汽车，自动无人机），3D映射系统和AR/VR应用至关重要。这项工作提出了一个新颖的LIDAR惯性 - 视觉融合框架，称为R $^3 $ LIVE ++，以实现强大而准确的状态估计，同时可以随时重建光线体图。 R $^3 $ LIVE ++由LIDAR惯性探针（LIO）和视觉惯性探测器（VIO）组成，均为实时运行。 LIO子系统利用从激光雷达的测量值重建几何结构（即3D点的位置），而VIO子系统同时从输入图像中同时恢复了几何结构的辐射信息。 r $^3 $ live ++是基于r $^3 $ live开发的，并通过考虑相机光度校准（例如，非线性响应功能和镜头渐滴）和相机的在线估计，进一步提高了本地化和映射的准确性和映射接触时间。我们对公共和私人数据集进行了更广泛的实验，以将我们提出的系统与其他最先进的SLAM系统进行比较。定量和定性结果表明，我们所提出的系统在准确性和鲁棒性方面对其他系统具有显着改善。此外，为了证明我们的工作的可扩展性，{我们基于重建的辐射图开发了多个应用程序，例如高动态范围（HDR）成像，虚拟环境探索和3D视频游戏。}最后，分享我们的发现和我们的发现和为社区做出贡献，我们在GitHub上公开提供代码，硬件设计和数据集：github.com/hku-mars/r3live

由于其对环境变化的鲁棒性，视觉猛感的间接方法是受欢迎的。 ORB-SLAM2 \ CITE {ORBSLM2}是该域中的基准方法，但是，除非选择帧作为关键帧，否则它会消耗从未被重用的描述符。轻量级和高效，因为它跟踪相邻帧之间的关键点而不计算描述符。为此，基于稀疏光流提出了一种两个级粗到微小描述符独立的Keypoint匹配方法。在第一阶段，我们通过简单但有效的运动模型预测初始关键点对应，然后通过基于金字塔的稀疏光流跟踪鲁棒地建立了对应关系。在第二阶段，我们利用运动平滑度和末端几何形状的约束来改进对应关系。特别是，我们的方法仅计算关键帧的描述符。我们在\ texit {tum}和\ texit {icl-nuim} RGB-D数据集上测试Fastorb-Slam，并将其准确性和效率与九种现有的RGB-D SLAM方法进行比较。定性和定量结果表明，我们的方法实现了最先进的准确性，并且大约是ORB-SLAM2的两倍。

可靠地定量自然和人为气体释放（例如，从海底进入海洋的自然和人为气体释放（例如，Co $ _2 $，甲烷），最终是大气，是一个具有挑战性的任务。虽然船舶的回声探测器允许在水中检测水中的自由气，但是即使从较大的距离中，精确量化需要诸如未获得的升高速度和气泡尺寸分布的参数。光学方法的意义上是互补的，即它们可以提供从近距离的单个气泡或气泡流的高时和空间分辨率。在这一贡献中，我们介绍了一种完整的仪器和评估方法，用于光学气泡流特征。专用仪器采用高速深海立体声摄像机系统，可在部署在渗透网站以进行以后的自动分析时录制泡泡图像的Tbleabytes。对于几分钟的短序列可以获得泡特性，然后将仪器迁移到其他位置，或者以自主间隔模式迁移到几天内，以捕获由于电流和压力变化和潮汐循环引起的变化。除了报告泡沫特征的步骤旁边，我们仔细评估了可达准确性并提出了一种新颖的校准程序，因为由于缺乏点对应，仅使用气泡的剪影。该系统已成功运营，在太平洋高达1000万水深，以评估甲烷通量。除了样品结果外，我们还会报告在开发期间汲取的故障案例和经验教训。

本文提出了一种新颖的方法，用于在具有复杂拓扑结构的地下领域的搜索和救援行动中自动合作。作为CTU-Cras-Norlab团队的一部分，拟议的系统在DARPA SubT决赛的虚拟轨道中排名第二。与专门为虚拟轨道开发的获奖解决方案相反，该建议的解决方案也被证明是在现实世界竞争极为严峻和狭窄的环境中飞行的机上实体无人机的强大系统。提出的方法可以使无缝模拟转移的无人机团队完全自主和分散的部署，并证明了其优于不同环境可飞行空间的移动UGV团队的优势。该论文的主要贡献存在于映射和导航管道中。映射方法采用新颖的地图表示形式 - 用于有效的风险意识长距离计划，面向覆盖范围和压缩的拓扑范围的LTVMAP领域，以允许在低频道通信下进行多机器人合作。这些表示形式与新的方法一起在导航中使用，以在一般的3D环境中可见性受限的知情搜索，而对环境结构没有任何假设，同时将深度探索与传感器覆盖的剥削保持平衡。所提出的解决方案还包括一条视觉感知管道，用于在没有专用GPU的情况下在5 Hz处进行四个RGB流中感兴趣的对象的板上检测和定位。除了参与DARPA SubT外，在定性和定量评估的各种环境中，在不同的环境中进行了广泛的实验验证，UAV系统的性能得到了支持。

在本文中，我们提出了一个紧密耦合的视觉惯性对象级多效性动态大满贯系统。即使在极其动态的场景中，它也可以为摄像机姿势，速度，IMU偏见并构建一个密集的3D重建对象级映射图。我们的系统可以通过稳健的传感器和对象跟踪，可以强牢固地跟踪和重建任意对象的几何形状，其语义和运动的几何形状，其语义和运动的几何形状，并通过逐步融合相关的颜色，深度，语义和前景对象概率概率。此外，当对象在视野视野外丢失或移动时，我们的系统可以在重新观察时可靠地恢复其姿势。我们通过定量和定性测试现实世界数据序列来证明我们方法的鲁棒性和准确性。

We propose a direct (feature-less) monocular SLAM algorithm which, in contrast to current state-of-the-art regarding direct methods, allows to build large-scale, consistent maps of the environment. Along with highly accurate pose estimation based on direct image alignment, the 3D environment is reconstructed in real-time as pose-graph of keyframes with associated semi-dense depth maps. These are obtained by filtering over a large number of pixelwise small-baseline stereo comparisons. The explicitly scale-drift aware formulation allows the approach to operate on challenging sequences including large variations in scene scale. Major enablers are two key novelties: (1) a novel direct tracking method which operates on sim(3), thereby explicitly detecting scale-drift, and (2) an elegant probabilistic solution to include the effect of noisy depth values into tracking. The resulting direct monocular SLAM system runs in real-time on a CPU.

The field of autonomous mobile robots has undergone dramatic advancements over the past decades. Despite achieving important milestones, several challenges are yet to be addressed. Aggregating the achievements of the robotic community as survey papers is vital to keep the track of current state-of-the-art and the challenges that must be tackled in the future. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive review of autonomous mobile robots covering topics such as sensor types, mobile robot platforms, simulation tools, path planning and following, sensor fusion methods, obstacle avoidance, and SLAM. The urge to present a survey paper is twofold. First, autonomous navigation field evolves fast so writing survey papers regularly is crucial to keep the research community well-aware of the current status of this field. Second, deep learning methods have revolutionized many fields including autonomous navigation. Therefore, it is necessary to give an appropriate treatment of the role of deep learning in autonomous navigation as well which is covered in this paper. Future works and research gaps will also be discussed.