— In order to create consistent maps of unknown environments, a robot must be able to recognize when it has returned to a previously visited place. In this paper, we introduce an...
In this paper simultaneous localization and map building is performed with a hybrid, metric - topological, approach. A global topological map connects local metric maps, allowing ...
Nicola Tomatis, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Roland Siegwa...
We present an image-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework with online, appearanceonly loop closing. We adopt a layered approach with metric maps over small ...
Abstract— This paper presents a novel use of spectral clustering algorithms to support cases where the entries in the affinity matrix are costly to compute. The method is increm...
Christoffer Valgren, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilient...
In this paper a graph-based method is presented which not only characterizes topological classification of the tessellated surfaces but also simultaneously generates the substanti...