Acquiring models of the environment belongs to the fundamental tasks of mobile robots. In the past, several researchers have focused on the problem of simultaneous localization an...
This paper describes an autonomous robot system designed to solve the challenging task of geocaching. Geocaching involves locating a goal object in an outdoor environment given on...
James Neufeld, Michael Sokolsky, Jason Roberts, Ad...
— Map learning is a fundamental task in mobile robotics because maps are required for a series of high level applications. In this paper, we address the problem of building maps ...
Patrick Pfaff, Rudolph Triebel, Cyrill Stachniss, ...
—The simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem asks if it is possible for an autonomous vehicle to start in an unknown location in an unknown environment and then...
Stefan B. Williams, Gamini Dissanayake, Hugh F. Du...
When animals (including humans) first explore a new environment, what they remember is fragmentary knowledge about the places visited. Yet, they have to use such fragmentary knowl...