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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's North American research organization.

MERL does application-motivated basic and applied research and advanced development in physical simulation & modeling, optimization, control, signal processing and Artificial Intelligence. We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world.

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Featured Research

Point-Plane SLAM: Real-time 3D reconstruction using an RGB-D sensor on a tablet.

We present a real-time 3D reconstruction system using an RGB-D sensor on a hand-held tablet. The main novelty of the system is a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm that uses both point and plane features as primitives. Planes are the most common structures in man-made indoor and outdoor scenes.

As the core of the algorithm, we show that it is possible to register 3D data in two different coordinate systems using any combination of three point/plane features (3 planes, 2 planes and 1 point, 1 plane and 2 points, and 3 points). We use the minimal set of features in a RANSAC framework to robustly compute correspondences and estimate the camera pose. We also use the point and plane features in bundle adjustment . . . [learn more]

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News & Events

  • NEWS  Yuki Shirai appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).Released: Mar 14, 2025

    MERL researcher, Yuki Shirai, has been appointed to the editorial board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) as an Associate Editor.

    IEEE RA-L publishes peer-reviewed articles in the areas of robotics and automation . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL Papers and Workshops at AAAI 2025Released: Mar 13, 2025

    MERL researchers presented 2 conference papers, 2 workshop papers, and co-organized 1 workshop at the AAAI 2025 conference, which was held in Philadelphia from Feb. 25 to Mar. 4, 2025. AAAI is one of the most prestigious and competitive . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL researchers present 7 papers at CDC 2024Released: Dec 26, 2024

    MERL researchers presented 7 papers at the recently concluded Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024 in Milan, Italy. The papers covered a wide range of topics including safety shielding for stochastic model predictive control, reinforcement . . . [read more]

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