RoboEarth semantic map**: A cloud enabled knowledge-based approach

L Riazuelo, M Tenorth, D Di Marco… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vision of the RoboEarth project is to design a knowledge-based system to provide web
and cloud services that can transform a simple robot into an intelligent one. In this work, we …

Semantic linking maps for active visual object search

Z Zeng, A Röfer, OC Jenkins - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We aim for mobile robots to function in a variety of common human environments. Such
robots need to be able to reason about the locations of previously unseen target objects …

Navigating to objects in unseen environments by distance prediction

M Zhu, B Zhao, T Kong - 2022 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task is to navigate an agent to an object category in
unseen environments without a pre-built map. In this paper, we solve this task by predicting …

Semantic grounding for long-term autonomy of mobile robots toward dynamic object search in home environments

Y Zhang, G Tian, X Shao, M Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we presents an effective semantic grounding scheme to long-term mobile
robots for dynamic object search in open/dynamic home environments. The challenge of this …

Building metric-topological map to efficient object search for mobile robot

Y Zhang, G Tian, X Shao, S Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, an effective solution is presented for efficient robotic object search by
leveraging metric-topological map. Based on the reference of objects, we construct a novel …

Towards optimal correlational object search

K Zheng, R Chitnis, Y Sung… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In realistic applications of object search, robots will need to locate target objects in complex
environments while co** with unreliable sensors, especially for small or hard-to-detect …

Efficient object search with belief road map using mobile robot

C Wang, J Cheng, J Wang, X Li… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter describes a pipeline for autonomous object search using a mobile robot. The
robot is required to efficiently find an object in an unknown environment. In this letter, we …

Multi-object search using object-oriented POMDPs

A Wandzel, Y Oh, M Fishman, N Kumar… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A core capability of robots is to reason about multiple objects under uncertainty. Partially
Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a means of reasoning under …

A survey of AUV and robot simulators for multi-vehicle operations

D Cook, A Vardy, R Lewis - 2014 IEEE/OES Autonomous …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a survey of a selection of currently available simulation software for
robots and unmanned vehicles. In particular, the simulators selected are reviewed for their …

Hierarchical semantic knowledge-based object search method for household robots

M Zhang, G Tian, Y Cui, Y Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object search is a basic and necessary task for household robots to perform home services.
However, due to the complexity and dynamics in home environment, some target objects …