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And the winner of the 2024 #TRO King-Sun Fu Award is the paper entitled “Certifiably Correct Range-Aided SLAM” which presents CORA, an algorithm achieving certifiably optimal solutions for range-aided SLAM problems, enhancing mapping accuracy and robustness.

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Schematic overview of the proposed algorithm on a four robot RA-SLAM problem. (Top) the high-level flow, which, given an initial estimate, solves a semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation of the RA-SLAM problem. As the SDP solution is not necessarily feasible for the RA-SLAM problem, a final estimate to the original problem is then extracted and returned. (Bottom-Left) The Riemannian Staircase methodology used to solve the SDP, in which optimization is performed over increasingly lifted Riemannian optimization problems until a certified solution to the SDP is found. The Riemannian optimization is over a product manifold involving orthonormal frames and vectors on the unit-sphere, certification involves evaluating positive semidefiniteness of a specific matrix, and lifting is equivalent to increasing the dimensions of the product manifold. (Bottom-Right) extracting the final estimate via feasible set projection followed by Riemannian optimization.
May 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Congratulations to TRO Editor-in-Chief, Wolfram Burgard @wolfram-burgard.bsky.social for receiving the @ieeeras.bsky.social RAS Pioneer Award. The society's highest distinction recognizes Dr. Burgard's pioneering contributions to probabilistic state estimation, perception, and learning in robotics
Wolfram Burgard receiving the IEEE RAS Pioneer Award, alongside Aude Billard and Seth Hutchinson.
May 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM