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

The evolution of contemporary mobile robotics has given thrust to a series of additional
conjunct technologies. Of such is the semantic map**, which provides an abstraction of …

This paper is concerned of the loop closure detection problem for visual simultaneous
localization and map** systems. We propose a novel approach based on the stacked …

The traditional environment maps built by mobile robots include both metric ones and
topological ones. These maps are navigation-oriented and not adequate for service robots …

This paper presents an image retrieval framework that uses affine image moment invariants
as descriptors of local image areas. Detailed feature vectors are generated by feeding the …

The ability of mobile robots to sense, interpret and map their environments in human terms is
decisive for their applicability to everyday activities hereafter. Bearing this view in mind, we …

Most approaches to robot localization rely on low-level geometric features such as points,
lines, and planes. In this paper, we use object recognition to obtain semantic information …

The paper at hand introduces a novel system for producing an enhanced semantic map that
leverages a reconstruction approach of street-view scenes using computer vision and …

As robots tend to establish their presence in every day human environments the necessity
for them to attain socially acceptable behavior is a condition sine qua non. Consequently …