A survey on active simultaneous localization and mapping: State of the art and new frontiers

JA Placed, J Strader, H Carrillo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of planning and
controlling the motion of a robot to build the most accurate and complete model of the …

Active mapping and robot exploration: A survey

I Lluvia, E Lazkano, A Ansuategi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simultaneous localization and mapping responds to the problem of building a map of the
environment without any prior information and based on the data obtained from one or more …

Learning to explore using active neural slam

DS Chaplot, D Gandhi, S Gupta, A Gupta… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This work presents a modular and hierarchical approach to learn policies for exploring 3D
environments, calledActive Neural SLAM'. Our approach leverages the strengths of both …

Representation granularity enables time-efficient autonomous exploration in large, complex worlds

C Cao, H Zhu, Z Ren, H Choset, J Zhang - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
We propose a dual-resolution scheme to achieve time-efficient autonomous exploration with
one or many robots. The scheme maintains a high-resolution local map of the robot's …

Rapid exploration with multi-rotors: A frontier selection method for high speed flight

T Cieslewski, E Kaufmann… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploring and mapping previously unknown environments while avoiding collisions with
obstacles is a fundamental task for autonomous robots. In scenarios where this needs to be …

Maximum entropy gain exploration for long horizon multi-goal reinforcement learning

S Pitis, H Chan, S Zhao, B Stadie… - … Conference on Machine …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
What goals should a multi-goal reinforcement learning agent pursue during training in long-
horizon tasks? When the desired (test time) goal distribution is too distant to offer a useful …

Learning active camera for multi-object navigation

P Chen, D Ji, K Lin, W Hu, W Huang… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Getting robots to navigate to multiple objects autonomously is essential yet difficult in robot
applications. One of the key challenges is how to explore environments efficiently with …

A centralized strategy for multi-agent exploration

F Gul, A Mir, I Mir, S Mir, TU Islaam, L Abualigah… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces recently developed Aquila Optimization Algorithm specifically
configured for Multi-Robot space exploration. The proposed hybrid framework “Coordinated …

[HTML][HTML] Towards autonomous mapping in agriculture: A review of supportive technologies for ground robotics

DT Fasiolo, L Scalera, E Maset, A Gasparetto - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper surveys the supportive technologies currently available for ground mobile robots
used for autonomous mapping in agriculture. Unlike previous reviews, we describe state-of …

Active neural mapping

Z Yan, H Yang, H Zha - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We address the problem of active mapping with a continually-learned neural scene
representation, namely Active Neural Mapping. The key lies in actively finding the target …