The availability of efficient mapping systems to produce accurate representations of initially
unknown environments is recognized as one of the main requirements for autonomous …

Some applications require autonomous robots to search an initially unknown environment
for static targets, without any a priori information about environment structure and target …

The exploration of an unknown environment by a robot system (an individual robot or a team
of robots) is a well-studied problem in robotics. This problem has many applications and …

Performance of exploration strategies strongly depends on the process of determination of a
next robot goal. Current approaches define different utility functions how to evaluate and …

Exploration strategies play an important role in influencing the performance of an
autonomous mobile robot exploring and mapping an unknown environment. Although …

This paper deals with the problem of autonomous navigation of a mobile robot in an
unknown 2D environment to fully explore the environment as efficiently as possible. We …

We propose a novel holistic approach to safe autonomous exploration and map building
based on constrained Bayesian optimization. This method finds optimal continuous paths …

An autonomous robot is often in a situation to perform tasks or missions in an initially
unknown environment. A logical approach to doing this implies discovering the environment …

Assume a robot operating in a public space (eg, a library, a museum) and serving visitors as
a companion, a guide or an information stand. To do that, the robot has to interact with …

In this paper, a method for robotic exploration oriented to the automatic three‐dimensional
(3D) reconstruction of outdoor scenes is presented. The proposed algorithm focuses on …