{"id":165007,"date":"2023-06-02T20:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/mit-multi-robot-mapping-sets-new-gold-standard"},"modified":"2023-06-02T20:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T01:24:40","slug":"mit-multi-robot-mapping-sets-new-gold-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/mit-multi-robot-mapping-sets-new-gold-standard","title":{"rendered":"MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New \u201cGold Standard\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-multi-robot-mapping-sets-new-gold-standard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is part of our exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/collections\/journal-watch\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\">IEEE Journal Watch series<\/a> in partnership with IEEE Xplore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does your robot know where it is right now? Does it? Are you <em>sure<\/em>? And what about all of its robot friends\u2014do they know where they are too? This is important. So important, in fact, that some would say that multirobot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a crucial capability to obtain timely situational awareness over large areas. Those some would be a group of MIT roboticists who just won the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8860\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">IEEE Transactions on Robotics<\/a><\/em> Best Paper Award for 2022, presented at this year\u2019s IEEE International Conference on <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/topic\/robotics\/\" class=\"\">Robotics<\/a> and Automation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-ras.org\/conferences-workshops\/fully-sponsored\/icra\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">ICRA 2023<\/a>), in London. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>Out of more than 200 papers published in <em>Transactions on Robotics<\/em> last year, reviewers and editors voted to present the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-ras.org\/awards-recognition\/publications-awards?view=article&id=70:ieee-transactions-on-robotics-king-sun-fu-memorial-best-paper-award&catid=69:society-awards\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">2022 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award<\/a> to Yulun Tian, Yun Chang, Fernando Herrera Arias, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Jonathan P. How, and Luca Carlone from MIT for their paper <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/9686955\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/9686955\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Does your robot know where it is right now? Does it? Are you sure? And what about all of its robot friends\u2014do they know where they are too? This is important. So important, in fact, that some would say [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}