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Non-line-of-sight tracking of people at long range
A remote-sensing system that can determine the position of hidden objects has
applications in many critical real-life scenarios, such as search and rescue
missions and safe autonomous driving. Previous work has shown the ability to
range and image objects hidden from the direct line of sight, employing
advanced optical imaging technologies aimed at small objects at short range. In
this work we demonstrate a long-range tracking system based on single laser
illumination and single-pixel single-photon detection. This enables us to track
one or more people hidden from view at a stand-off distance of over 50~m. These
results pave the way towards next generation LiDAR systems that will
reconstruct not only the direct-view scene but also the main elements hidden
behind walls or corners
Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Towards the Robust-Perception Age
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)consists in the concurrent
construction of a model of the environment (the map), and the estimation of the
state of the robot moving within it. The SLAM community has made astonishing
progress over the last 30 years, enabling large-scale real-world applications,
and witnessing a steady transition of this technology to industry. We survey
the current state of SLAM. We start by presenting what is now the de-facto
standard formulation for SLAM. We then review related work, covering a broad
set of topics including robustness and scalability in long-term mapping, metric
and semantic representations for mapping, theoretical performance guarantees,
active SLAM and exploration, and other new frontiers. This paper simultaneously
serves as a position paper and tutorial to those who are users of SLAM. By
looking at the published research with a critical eye, we delineate open
challenges and new research issues, that still deserve careful scientific
investigation. The paper also contains the authors' take on two questions that
often animate discussions during robotics conferences: Do robots need SLAM? and
Is SLAM solved
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