Hackaday

Self-Driving Cars And The Fight Over The Necessity Of Lidar

If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by ...
Hackaday

Build Your Own Force-Feedback Joystick

Force feedback joysticks are prized for creating a more realistic experience when used with software like flight sims. Sadly, you can’t say the same thing about using them with mech games, ...
IEEE

PADLoC: LiDAR-Based Deep Loop Closure Detection and Registration Using Panoptic Attention

Abstract: A key component of graph-based SLAM systems is the ability to detect loop closures in a trajectory to reduce the drift accumulated over time from the odometry. Most LiDAR-based methods ...
IEEE

Multimodal Features and Accurate Place Recognition With Robust Optimization for Lidar–Visual–Inertial SLAM

Abstract: Lidar–visual–inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) (LVINS) provides a compelling solution for accurate and robust state estimation and mapping, integrating complementary ...