Nowadays, most mobile robot applications use two-dimensional LiDAR for indoor mapping,
navigation, and low-level scene segmentation. However, single data type maps are not …

This paper proposes a method for a cleaning robot to generate a topological map from an
occupancy grid-map. Virtual door is defined as the candidates of real door, and the virtual …

Although cleaning robots have been increasingly popular in home environments, their
coverage rate and performance has not been very impressive to their users, thus often …

We address the problem of systematically covering all accessible floor space in an unknown
environment by a mobile robot. Our approach uses rectangular regions that are swept …

Traditional mapping techniques rely on metric properties, which represent indoor
information with specific geometric characteristics. This fact highly differs from the way in …

Cooperation with humans is a requirement for the next generation of robots so it is
necessary to model how robots can sense, know, share and acquire knowledge from human …

Path planning and navigation in unknown environment is one of the most challenging tasks
for autonomous mobile robots. Decomposition of the state space is vital for avoiding …

Finding optimized path in the workspace is one of the fundamental problems to solve for an
autonomous mobile robot. Avoiding obstacles and building an efficient trajectory is the key …

Asserting the inherent topology of the environment perceived by a robot is a key prerequisite
of high-level decision making. This is achieved through the construction of a concise …

Global path planning is a challenging problem arisen in many fields of research.
Unfortunately, path planning algorithms have relatively high complexity that extremely grows …