Multi-sensor semantic mapping and exploration of indoor environments

Islem Jebari, Stéphane Bazeille, Emmanuel Battesti, Hassene Tekaya, Marius Klein, Adriana Tapus, David Filliat, Cédric Meyer, Sio Hoï Ieng, Ryad Benosman, Eddy Cizeron, Jean Charles Mamanna, Benoit Pothier

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Abstract

The human perception of the external world appears as a natural, immediate and effortless task. It is achieved through a number of low-level sensory-motor processes that provide a high-level representation adapted to complex reasoning and decision. Compared to these representations, mobile robots usually provide only low-level obstacle maps that lack such highlevel information. We present a mobile robot whose goal is to autonomously explore an unknown indoor environment and to build a semantic map containing high-level information similar to those extracted by humans and that will be rapidly and easily interpreted by users to assess the situation. This robot was developed under the Panoramic and Active Camera for Object Mapping (PACOM)1 project whose goal is to participate in a French exploration and mapping contest called CAROTTE 2. We will detail in particular how we integrated visual object recognition, room detection, semantic mapping, and exploration. We demonstrate the performances of our system in an indoor environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2011
Pages151-156
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 May 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2011 - Woburn, MA, United States
Duration: 11 Apr 201112 Apr 2011

Publication series

Name2011 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2011

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWoburn, MA
Period11/04/1112/04/11

Keywords

  • SLAM
  • autonomous exploration
  • object detection
  • semantic mapping

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