Authors:
Jens Wettach
and
Karsten Berns
Affiliation:
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Keyword(s):
Robotics, Exploration, Indoor Environments, Experiments, Evaluation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Mobile Robots and Autonomous Systems
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Vision, Recognition and Reconstruction
Abstract:
A key capability of any indoor service robot is to explore arbitrary, unknown environments in order to record a complete and correct map in minimal time. Such a map is a prerequisite of common tasks like surveillance, transportation as well as search and rescue. In recent years a series of solutions has been proposed by the authors: a dynamic enhancement of the frontier-based approach, ground plan-based exploration and a hybrid combination of both. This paper evaluates the performance of each of these strategies within an everyday office scenario in simulation and reality and discusses their pros and cons.