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Understanding the Real World: Combining Objects, Appearance, Geometry and Topology for Semantic Mapping
KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC), Computer Vision and Active Perception, CVAP. KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC), Centres, Centre for Autonomous Systems, CAS.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1396-0102
KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC), Computer Vision and Active Perception, CVAP. KTH, School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC), Centres, Centre for Autonomous Systems, CAS.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1170-7162
2011 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

A cornerstone for mobile robots operating in man-made environments and interacting with humans is representing and understanding the human semantic concepts of space. In this report, we present a multi-layered semantic mapping algorithm able to combine information about the existence of objects in the environment with knowledge about the topology and semantic properties of space such as room size, shape and general appearance. We use it to infer semantic categories of rooms and predict existence of objects and values of other spatial properties. We perform experiments offline and online on a mobile robot showing the efficiency and usefulness of our system.

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Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology , 2011. , p. 20
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Computer and Information Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-34158OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-34158DiVA, id: diva2:419553
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QC 20110527Available from: 2011-05-27 Created: 2011-05-27 Last updated: 2022-06-24Bibliographically approved
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1. Semantic Mapping with Mobile Robots
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Semantic Mapping with Mobile Robots
2011 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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After decades of unrealistic predictions and expectations, robots have finally escaped from industrial workplaces and made their way into our homes,offices, museums and other public spaces. These service robots are increasingly present in our environments and many believe that it is in the area ofservice and domestic robotics that we will see the largest growth within thenext few years. In order to realize the dream of robot assistants performing human-like tasks together with humans in a seamless fashion, we need toprovide them with the fundamental capability of understanding complex, dynamic and unstructured environments. More importantly, we need to enablethem the sharing of our understanding of space to permit natural cooper-ation. To this end, this thesis addresses the problem of building internalrepresentations of space for artificial mobile agents populated with humanspatial semantics as well as means for inferring that semantics from sensoryinformation. More specifically, an extensible approach to place classificationis introduced and used for mobile robot localization as well as categorizationand extraction of spatial semantic concepts from general place appearance andgeometry. The models can be incrementally adapted to the dynamic changesin the environment and employ efficient ways for cue integration, sensor fu-sion and confidence estimation. In addition, a system and representationalapproach to semantic mapping is presented. The system incorporates and in-tegrates semantic knowledge from multiple sources such as the geometry andgeneral appearance of places, presence of objects, topology of the environmentas well as human input. A conceptual map is designed and used for modelingand reasoning about spatial concepts and their relations to spatial entitiesand their semantic properties. Finally, the semantic mapping algorithm isbuilt into an integrated robotic system and shown to substantially enhancethe performance of the robot on the complex task of active object search. Thepresented evaluations show the effectiveness of the system and its underlyingcomponents and demonstrate applicability to real-world problems in realistichuman settings.

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Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2011. p. xiii, 52
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Trita-CSC-A, ISSN 1653-5723 ; 2011:10
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Computer Sciences
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urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-34171 (URN)978-91-7501-039-7 (ISBN)
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2011-06-10, Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26, KTH, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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QC 20110527Available from: 2011-05-27 Created: 2011-05-27 Last updated: 2022-06-24Bibliographically approved

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