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CORB-SLAM: A Collaborative Visual SLAM System for Multiple Robots

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With the single-robot visual SLAM method reaching maturity, the issue of collaboratively exploring unknown environments by multiple robots attracts increasing attention. In this paper, we present CORB-SLAM, a novel collaborative multi-robot visual SLAM system providing map fusing and map sharing capabilities. Experimental results on popular public datasets demonstrate the performance of the CORB-SLAM. Furthermore, we make the source code of CORB-SLAM to be publicly available (https://github.com/lifunudt/CORB-SLAM.git).

Project 91648204 supported by NSFC, project ZDYYJCYJ20140601 supported by NUDT, and project 201602-01 supported by HPCL.

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  1. State Key Laboratery of High Performance Computing (HPCL), National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

    Fu Li, Shaowu Yang, Xiaodong Yi & Xuejun Yang

  2. College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

    Fu Li, Shaowu Yang, Xiaodong Yi & Xuejun Yang

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  1. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Imed Romdhani

  2. Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, China

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  3. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Hara Takahiro

  4. China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

    Zhangbing Zhou

  5. University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

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Li, F., Yang, S., Yi, X., Yang, X. (2018). CORB-SLAM: A Collaborative Visual SLAM System for Multiple Robots. In: Romdhani, I., Shu, L., Takahiro, H., Zhou, Z., Gordon, T., Zeng, D. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8_45

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