RoboEarth at IROS 2011
Members of the RoboEarth team contributed seven papers to the IROS'11 conference, which took place in San Francisco (USA) from September 25-30th. In addition, RoboEarth supported a workshop on Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Robots.
During the workshop Jos Elfring gave an introduction to RoboEarth's approach to world modelling. It uses a multiple hypothesis filter (MHF) to keep track of objects over time and introduces techniques to improve the probabilistic models by taking prior knowledge about objects into account, e.g. object dynamics, expected locations, relations between object classes and detector characteristics. For more details on this topic take a look at the corresponding paper, Knowledge-Driven World Modeling.
Other papers presented during the regular paper sessions were:
- Autonomous Semantic Mapping for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Tasks in Kitchen Environments. Nico Blodow, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Thomas Ruehr, Moritz Tenorth, and Michael Beetz
- Parameterizing Actions to Have the Appropriate Effects. Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz
- Logic Programming with Simulation-Based Temporal Projection for Everyday Robot Object Manipulation. Lars Kunze, Mihai Emanuel Dolha and Michael Beetz
- Towards Semantic SLAM using a Monocular Camera. Javier Civera, Dorian Gálvez-López, Luis Riazuelo, J.D. Tardós and J.M.M. Montiel
- Dense Multi-Planar Scene Estimation from a Sparse Set of Images. Alberto Argiles, Javier Civera and Luis Montesano
- Real-Time Loop Detection with Bags of Binary Words. Dorian Gálvez-López and Juan D. Tardós