In this paper we describe the problem of visual place categorization (VPC) for mobile
robotics, which involves predicting the semantic category of a place from image …

In this paper, we address the problem of creating an objective benchmark for comparing
SLAM approaches. We propose a framework for analyzing the results of SLAM approaches …

New technologies are emerging to enable and support physical, implicit and explicit
collaborations. They are essential for dealing with increasingly complex systems in …

Abstract We introduce Ravel (Robots with Audiovisual Abilities), a publicly available data set
which covers examples of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios. These scenarios are …

Loop closing in vision based SLAM applications is a difficult task. Comparing new image
data with all previously acquired image data is practically impossible because of the high …

Patterns of qualitative concepts are extracted from robot sensors in order to describe the
shapes, colours, spatial orientations and topology situations of natural landmarks in the …

We consider the problem of merging together multiple appearance-based maps
independently built by a team of robots jointly exploring an indoor environment. Due to the …

In this paper, we describe a concise method for the feature-based representation of regions
in an indoor environment and show how it can also be applied for door-passage …

An issue widely discussed in robotics research is the ageing society with its consequences
for care-giving institutions and opportunities for developments in the area of service robots …

Loop closing in vision based SLAM applications is a difficult task. Comparing new image
data with all previous image data acquired for the map is practically impossible because of …