Nowadays, the field of mobile robotics is experiencing a quick evolution, and a variety of
autonomous vehicles is available to solve different tasks. The advances in computer vision …

Topological maps model the environment as a graph, where nodes are distinctive places of
the environment and edges indicate topological relationships between them. They represent …

This paper describes an on-line algorithm for multi-robot simultaneous localization and
map** (SLAM). The starting point is the single-robot Rao-Blackwellized particle filter …

The ability to represent knowledge about space and its position therein is crucial for a
mobile robot. To this end, topological and semantic descriptions are gaining popularity for …

Many applications in mobile robotics and especially industrial applications require that the
robot has a precise estimate about its pose. In this paper, we analyze the accuracy of an …

This paper proposes a new technique for vision-based robot navigation. The basic
framework is to localise the robot by comparing images taken at its current location with …

An important competence for a mobile robot system is the ability to localize and perform
context interpretation. This is required to perform basic navigation and to facilitate local …

In this paper we present a vision-based approach to self-localization that uses a novel
scheme to integrate feature-based matching of panoramic images with Monte Carlo …

Visual localization and map** for mobile robots has been achieved with a large variety of
methods. Among them, topological navigation using vision has the advantage of offering a …

This work considers a mobile service robot which uses an appearance-based
representation of its workplace as a map, where the current view and the map are used to …