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Can a robot drive 100s of Kilometers with < 1 m Error?

A considerably difficult aspect of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the problem of uncertainty constrained long term point-to-point navigation where global loop closures to eliminate estimation biases may not be possible. In such scenarios, a prime concern is to control the rate of localization error growth. We have developed fundamental results on the underlying […]

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EDPLab Develops a Novel Technique For Feature-Based SLAM

The SLAM problem is known to have a special property that when robot orientation is known, estimating the history of robot poses and feature locations can be posed as a standard linear least squares problem. We have developed a SLAM framework that uses relative feature-to-feature measurements to exploit this structural property of SLAM. Relative feature […]

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Dan Yu Successfully Defends Her Ph.D.!

Our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Yu on successfully defending! Dr. Yu’s research focused on model order reduction techniques for large scale systems, you may find her publications here. Dr. Yu will continue her research at the EDP Lab.

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Decentralized State Estimation via a Hybrid of Consensus and Covariance intersection – Technical Report

This paper presents a new recursive information consensus filter for decentralized dynamic-state estimation. No structure is assumed about the topology of the network and local estimators are assumed to have access only to local information. The network need not be connected at all times. Consensus over priors which might become correlated is performed through Covariance Intersection (CI) and consensus over new […]

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