TY  - CONF
T1  - Multihierarchical Semantic Maps for Mobile Robotics
A1  - Galindo, Cipriano
A1  - Saffiotti, Alessandro
A1  - Coradeschi, Silvia
A1  - Buschka, Par
A1  - Fernández-Madrigal, Juan-Antonio
A1  - Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier
TI  - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2005)
Y1  - 2005
CY  - Edmonton (Canada)
N2  - The success of mobile robots, and particularly of those interfacing with humans in daily environments (e.g., assistant robots), relies on the ability to manipulate information beyond simple spatial relations. We are interested in semantic information, which gives meaning to spatial information like images or geometric maps. We present a multi-hierarchical approach to enable a mobile robot to acquire semantic information from its sensors, and to use it for navigation tasks. In our approach, the link between spatial and semantic information is established via anchoring. We show experiments on a real mobile robot that demonstrate its ability to use and infer new semantic information from its environment, improving its operation.
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