Recent research in robot exploration and mapping has focused on sampling environmental hotspot fields. This exploration task is formalized by Low, Dolan, and Khosla (2008) in a se...
A robotic chauffeur should reason about spatial information with a variety of scales, dimensions, and ontologies. Rich representations of both the quantitative and qualitative cha...
Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Ani...
— The need for reliable maps of subterranean spaces too hazardous for humans to occupy has motivated the use of robotic technology as mapping tools. As such, we present a systemi...
Aaron Morris, David Silver, David I. Ferguson, Sco...
Even the best laid plans can fail, and robot plans executed in real world domains tend to do so often. The ability of a robot to reliably monitor the execution of plans and detect...
Abdelbaki Bouguerra, Lars Karlsson, Alessandro Saf...
— Autonomous service robots have to recognize and interpret their environment to be able to interact with it. This paper will focus on service tasks such as serving a glass of wa...
Franziska Zacharias, Christoph Borst, Gerd Hirzing...