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Tsang-Kai Chang - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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In this paper we present BOEM-SLAM, a backend for visual-inertial SLAM systems capable of creating a globally consistent trajectory and map without retaining the entire history of data. By leveraging the hidden Markov model structure, BOEM-SLAM can summarize historical data into sufficient statistics and then discard it. As a data-efficient algorithm, BOEM-SLAM addresses the growing computational ...Show More
Cooperative localization is fundamental to autonomous multirobot systems, but most algorithms couple interrobot communication with observation, making these algorithms susceptible to failures in both communication and observation steps. To enhance the resilience of multirobot cooperative localization algorithms in a distributed system, we use covariance intersection to formalize a localization alg...Show More
We derive the Kullback-Leibler average of von Mises distributions to fuse circular informations in multi-agent systems. Similar to the covariance intersection for Gaussian distributions, the derived fusion protocol does not require the independence among incoming distributions but maintains the estimation consistency, if those von Mises distributions represent estimates. Therefore, this fusion pro...Show More
Covariance intersection (CI) extends Kalman filter (KF) in distributed estimation, since it can fuse Gaussian estimates in the absence of the estimates' correlations. However, even with the preliminary success on the integration of CI and KF, existing discussion limited in global behavior is unable to directly deal with a system with a mixture of unbounded-covariance and bounded-covariance agents....Show More
Typically, localization algorithms focus on maximizing estimation accuracy, often while neglecting some of the realworld costs of achieving such performance. In this letter, we formulate optimal scheduling problems of multirobot localization to investigate the tradeoff between estimate accuracy and its corresponding cost. We derive the continuous-time approximation to explicitly represent the rate...Show More