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IJRR
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Trajectory Optimization using Reinforcement Learning for Map Exploration
Automatically building maps from sensor data is a necessary and fundamental skill for mobile robots; as a result, considerable research attention has focused on the technical chall...
Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy
AROBOTS
2000
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Heterogeneous Teams of Modular Robots for Mapping and Exploration
In this article, we present the design of a team of heterogeneous, centimeter-scale robots that collaborate to map and explore unknown environments. The robots, called Millibots, a...
Robert Grabowski, Luis E. Navarro-Serment, Christi...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Which landmark is useful? Learning selection policies for navigation in unknown environments
Abstract— In general, a mobile robot that operates in unknown environments has to maintain a map and has to determine its own location given the map. This introduces significant...
Hauke Strasdat, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard
IJRR
2002
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Navigation Strategies for Exploring Indoor Environments
This paper investigates safe and efficient map-building strategies for a mobile robot with imperfect control and sensing. In the implementation, a robot equipped with a range sens...
Héctor H. González-Baños, Jea...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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HybridExploration: A distributed approach to terrain exploration using mobile and fixed sensor nodes
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
Ettore Ferranti, Niki Trigoni, Mark Levene