CILC: Cryptographically-secure Inter-agent Loop Closure Candidate Detection for Multi-Agent Collaborative SLAM

arXiv:2607.06700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and collaborative SLAM (CSLAM) require robots to continuously exchange global descriptors (GDs) to detect inter-agent loop closures (ILCs). While encrypted radios protect this traffic from external eavesdroppers, they offer no protection against a compromised swarm member. We show this threat is concrete by demonstrating how a corrupted agent can reconstruct approximations of an honest agent'...