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Improvement of Robot's Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using an Effective Transformation to Achieve Linear Model

arXiv:2606.28475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nowadays mobile robots have wide engineering applications. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an important task of these robots. The major and common algorithms used for this task are based on extended Kalman filter (EKF). One of the main problems in EKF-based SLAM is its divergence. The nonlinearity of motion and observation models and linearization error are the main reasons for the divergence. There have been some efforts to addres

Published June 30, 2026 · Category: Robotics

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arXiv:2606.28475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nowadays mobile robots have wide engineering applications. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an important task of these robots. The major and common algorithms used for this task are based on extended Kalman filter (EKF). One of the main problems in EKF-based SLAM is its divergence. The nonlinearity of motion and observation models and linearization error are the main reasons for the divergence. There have been some efforts to address this problem with limited success. In this paper, by applying a simple compass and using an effective transformation, we transform the non-linear state space model into a linear model. Then, by applying the original KF to this model, we reach a new method, which is called LMKF SLAM. We show that the LMKF SLAM is significantly superior to the state-of-the-art methods, especially EKF-based SLAMs, both in accuracy, convergence, and computational complexity. The proposed method is also more stable with respect to the uncertainty of sensors values and changes in system parameters. Experimental results verify these points.

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Originally published at arxiv.org.

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