We present Asynchronous Stochastic Parallel Pose Graph Optimization (ASAPP), the first asynchronous algorithm for distributed pose graph optimization (PGO) in multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping. By enabling robots to optimize their local trajectory estimates without synchronization, ASAPP offers resiliency against communication delays and alleviates the need to wait for stragglers in the network. Furthermore, ASAPP can be applied on the rank-restricted relaxations of PGO, a crucial class of non-convex Riemannian optimization problems that underlies recent breakthroughs on globally optimal PGO. Under bounded delay, we establish the global first-order convergence of ASAPP using a sufficiently small stepsize. The derived stepsize depends on the worst-case delay and inherent problem sparsity, and furthermore matches known result for synchronous algorithms when there is no delay. Numerical evaluations on simulated and real-world datasets demonstrate favorable performance compared to state-of-the-art synchronous approach, and show ASAPP's resilience against a wide range of delays in practice.

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ASAPP founder Gustavo Sapoznik developed software that trains customer-service reps to be "radically" more productive, winning the young startup an $800 million valuation. If you've ever felt your blood boil after sitting on hold for 40 minutes before reaching an agent . . . A customer-service representative for JetBlue, for instance, might have to flip rapidly among a dozen or more computer programs just to link your frequent-flier number to a specific itinerary. "Imagine that cognitive load, while you have someone screaming at you or complaining about some serious problem, and you're swiveling between 20 screens to see which one you need to be able to help this person," says Gustavo Sapoznik, 34, the founder and CEO of ASAPP, a New York City–based developer of AI-powered customer-service software. Sapoznik remembers just such a scene while shadowing a call-center agent at a "very large" company (he won't name names), watching the worker navigate a "Frankenstack" patchwork of software, entering a caller's information into six different billing systems before locating it.

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