4 papers
FindAnything: Open-Vocabulary and Object-Centric Mapping for Robot Exploration in Any Environment
Sebastián Barbas Laina, Simon Boche, Sotiris Papatheodorou +4
Geometrically accurate and semantically expressive map representations have proven invaluable for robot deployment and task planning in unknown environments. Nevertheless, real-tim…
Scalable Outdoors Autonomous Drone Flight with Visual-Inertial SLAM and Dense Submaps Built without LiDAR
Sebastián Barbas Laina, Simon Boche, Sotiris Papatheodorou +4
Autonomous navigation is needed for several robotics applications. In this paper we present an autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) system which purely relies on cost-effective an…
Efficient Submap-based Autonomous MAV Exploration using Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable for LiDARs or Depth Cameras
Sotiris Papatheodorou, Simon Boche, Sebastián Barbas Laina +1
Autonomous exploration of unknown space is an essential component for the deployment of mobile robots in the real world. Safe navigation is crucial for all robotics applications an…
Path Planning and Task Assignment for Data Retrieval from Wireless Sensor Nodes Relying on Game-Theoretic Learning
Sotiris Papatheodorou, Michalis Smyrnakis, Tembine Hamidou +1
The energy-efficient trip allocation of mobile robots employing differential drives for data retrieval from stationary sensor locations is the scope of this article. Given a team o…