Robotic Mapping and Exploration

• Main Author: Stachniss, Cyrill. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 55
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Systems theory.; Control engineering systems.; Control , Robotics, Mechatronics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Systems Theory, Control.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01097-2

"Robotic Mapping and Exploration" is an important contribution in the area of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for autonomous robots, which has been receiving a great deal of attention by the research community in the latest few years. The contents are focused on the autonomous...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Basic Techniques
• Part I Exploration with Known Poses
• Decision-Theoretic Exploration Using Coverage Maps
• Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration
• Multi-Robot Exploration Using Semantic Place Labels
• Part II Mapping and Exploration under Pose Uncertainty
• Efficient Techniques for Rao-Blackwellized Mapping
• Actively Closing Loops During Exploration
• Recovering Particle Diversity
• Information Gain-based Exploration
• Mapping and Localization in Non-Static Environments
• Conclusion.