Recent years have seen an unprecedented spread of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or
“drones”), which are highly useful for both civilian and military applications. Flight safety is a …

There is a growing trend in robotics for implementing behavioural mechanisms based on
human psychology, such as the processes associated with thinking. Semantic knowledge …

In this paper, the recent results of the space project IMPERA are presented. The goal of
IMPERA is the development of a multirobot planning and plan execution architecture with a …

Enriching the map of the flight environment with semantic knowledge is a common need for
several UAV applications. Safety legislations require no-fly zones near crowded areas that …

This paper presents a centralized, vision-based method for robust, on-the-fly 3D localization
and map** of human crowds in large-scale outdoor environments, assuming their …

Spatial reasoning and semantic environment understanding is a fundamental ability of
robots navigating in unstructured dynamic environments. Since spatial and semantic …

In this work, a system is developed for semantic labeling of locations based on what people
do. This system is useful for semantic navigation of mobile robots. The system differentiates …

Semantic perception and object labeling are key requirements for robots interacting with
objects on a higher level. Symbolic annotation of objects allows the usage of planning …

One has often to deal with large quantities of data in robotics, either coming from sensors or
from background knowledge. Background knowledge, with attached semantics, are usually …

Increasing autonomy and interactivity of mobile robotic technologies require the inclusion of
semantic information in environment representations. This thesis focuses on representations …