IROS Conference 2025 Conference Paper
MobiExo: GPS-SLAM Fusion for Seamless Indoor-Outdoor Mobile Manipulation with Hand-Foot Coordination
- Jianpeng Wang
- Zhen Tian
- Wenlong Chen
- Dian Yuan
- Zhou Zhou
- Ming Cen
- Xia Hua
- Fei Yu
Teleoperation systems for mobile robots face significant challenges in achieving seamless coordination across dynamic environments. We present MobiExo, a teleoperation system that unlocks seamless indoor-outdoor mobile manipulation. Our approach tackles two fundamental challenges: robust cross-environment localization and intuitive full-body control. A novel self-adaptive federated filter unifies GPS and SLAM, delivering continuous centimeter-level positioning (4. 5±0. 8 cm indoor, 6. 8±1. 2 cm outdoor) and eliminating transition errors. Simultaneously, an integrated hand-foot coordination framework translates the operator’s natural gait and gestures into fluid robot actions, maintaining remarkable millimeter-level end-effector precision (3. 5±0. 4 mm) during navigation. Extensive field trials validate our design, demonstrating high task success (96. 7% indoor, 94. 3% outdoor) and a 5. 9× efficiency improvement in multi-location tasks over stationary setups. Code is available at: https://github.com/wangjianpeng200/MobiExo.git