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most citedFast Autonomous Robotic Exploration Using the Underlying Graph Structure

25 citations · 58 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.RO2026

Kairos: Grounded Forecasting of Presence and Directional Flow in 4D Scene Graphs

Iacopo Catalano, Julio A. Placed, Javier Civera +1

Long-term autonomy in human-populated environments requires anticipating whether and how people will move at times a robot has not yet observed. Existing representations of pedestr…

cs.CV2026

Hierarchical Aggregation of Semantic Uncertainty in 3D Scene Graphs

Carlos Cueto Zumaya, Iacopo Catalano, Wallace Moreira Bessa +1

Open-vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) ground each object node in a vision-language embedding, yet they record every entry as equally certain, so a robot querying the map cannot t…

astro-ph.IM2026

A spatial filter for mitigating radio interference and its application to CHIME/FRB Outriggers

Shion Andrew, Juan Mena-Parra, Haochen Wang +16

The sensitivity of radio telescopes is becoming increasingly limited by the presence of radio frequency interference (RFI), which will worsen as the radio spectrum becomes more cro…

cs.RO2026

Rheos: Modelling Continuous Motion Dynamics in Hierarchical 3D Scene Graphs

Iacopo Catalano, Francesco Verdoja, Javier Civera +2

3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) provide hierarchical, multi-resolution abstractions that encode the geometric and semantic structure of an environment, yet their treatment of dynamics rema…

cs.RO2026

Topology-Aware Decision Making for Multi-Session Localization and Mapping

Lorenzo Montano-Olivan, Julio A. Placed, Luis Montano +1

Operating in previously visited environments is becoming increasingly crucial for autonomous systems, with direct applications in autonomous driving, surveying, and warehouse or ho…

cs.RO2025

Aion: Towards Hierarchical 4D Scene Graphs with Temporal Flow Dynamics

Iacopo Catalano, Eduardo Montijano, Javier Civera +2

Autonomous navigation in dynamic environments requires spatial representations that capture both semantic structure and temporal evolution. 3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) provide hierarch…

cs.RO2024★ 4 cited

From Underground Mines to Offices: A Versatile and Robust Framework for Range-Inertial SLAM

Lorenzo Montano-Oliván, Julio A. Placed, Luis Montano +1

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an essential component of autonomous robotic applications and self-driving vehicles, enabling them to understand and operate in thei…

cs.RO2024★ 8 cited

G-Loc: Tightly-coupled Graph Localization with Prior Topo-metric Information

Lorenzo Montano-Oliván, Julio A. Placed, Luis Montano +1

Localization in already mapped environments is a critical component in many robotics and automotive applications, where previously acquired information can be exploited along with…

cs.RO2022

ExplORB-SLAM: Active Visual SLAM Exploiting the Pose-graph Topology

Julio A. Placed, Juan J. Gómez Rodríguez, Juan D. Tardós +1

Deploying autonomous robots capable of exploring unknown environments has long been a topic of great relevance to the robotics community. In this work, we take a further step in th…

cs.RO2022★ 13 cited

A Survey on Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: State of the Art and New Frontiers

Julio A. Placed, Jared Strader, Henry Carrillo +4

Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the problem of planning and controlling the motion of a robot to build the most accurate and complete model of the surroundin…

cs.RO2022★ 25 cited

Fast Autonomous Robotic Exploration Using the Underlying Graph Structure

Julio A. Placed, José A. Castellanos

In this work, we fully define the existing relationships between traditional optimality criteria and the connectivity of the underlying pose-graph in Active SLAM, characterizing, t…

cs.RO2022★ 8 cited

Enough is Enough: Towards Autonomous Uncertainty-driven Stopping Criteria

Julio A. Placed, José A. Castellanos

Autonomous robotic exploration has long attracted the attention of the robotics community and is a topic of high relevance. Deploying such systems in the real world, however, is st…

cs.RO2021

A General Relationship between Optimality Criteria and Connectivity Indices for Active Graph-SLAM

Julio A. Placed, José A. Castellanos

Quantifying uncertainty is a key stage in active simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), as it allows to identify the most informative actions to execute. However, dealing wi…