Topological and Semantic Navigation

Nowadays topological and semantic navigation is considered as the most human-close way of navigation for a mobile robot, which combines information and relation of the environment elements.
AURON (Autonomous Robot Navigation) is considered a complete navigation system formed by the interaction of four main components: the explorer, the planner, the navigator and the relocalizator.
Each component has its own mission and interacts with the others giving autonomy to the robot. The explorer is in charge of generating without human intervention the representation of the environment navigating through unknown places and obtaining information. The planner gives the sequence of actions and detected events to go from one place to another once the robot has its own representation. The navigator converts the sequence obtained by the planner in real movements and supervises all the process and finally, the relocalizator allows placing the robot again in the representation of the environment once it is lost. The environment representation is an essential part of the system as it is used by all the other components. This representation includes semantic information.

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People working

  • Ramón Barber
  • Jonathan Crespo
  • Carlos José Astua
  • Higor Alves

People who started the research line

  • Miguel Ángel Salichs
  • Verónica Egido
  • Ana Corrales

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Books
- J.Crespo; R.Barber. Robots Sociales. Chapter: Modelado semántico del entorno en robótica cognitiva. Aplicación en navegación.. pp.145-166. ISBN: 978-84-695-7212. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2013.
- M.A.Salichs; R.Barber; M.Malfaz. The Industrial Electronics Handbook. Control and Mechatronics. Chapter: 39. Mobile Robots. pp.1-13. ISBN: 978-1-4398-0287. CRC Press. 2011.
- A.Corrales; M.A.Salichs. Book Title: Progress in Robotics. Title: Integration of a RFID System in a Social Robot. A. Corrales and M.A. Salichs. Book Series Title: Communications in Computer and Information Science Copyright: 2009 Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Isbn: 978-3-642-03986-7. Pages: 63-- 73 Volume: 44 . ISBN: . . 0000.
Journal publications
- A.Corrales; M.Malfaz; M.A.Salichs. Signage system for the navigation of autonomous robots in indoor environments. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. In press. Vol. 0. No. . pp.0-0. 2013.
- B.L.Boada; D.Blanco; L.Moreno. Symbolic Place Recognition in Voronoi-based maps by Using Hidden Markov Models. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. Vol. 39. No. . pp.173-197. 2004.
- M.A.Salichs; L.Moreno. Navigation of Mobile Robots: Open Questions. Robotica. Vol. 18. No. 3. pp.227-234. 2000.
Conference publications
- A.Jardón; S.Martínez; J.G.Víctores; C.Balaguer. Extended range guidance system for micro-tunnelling machine Autores A Jardon, S Martinez, JG Victores, M Marti, C Balaguer Fecha de publicación Nombre de la revista Gerontechnology Volumen 11 Número 2 Páginas 326 Descripción Extended range guidance system for micro-tunnelling machine.. International Symposium for Automation and Robotics in Construction 2012(ISARC2012). . Eindhoven. The Netherlands. Jun, 2012.
- A.Corrales; M.A.Salichs. Use of RFID technology on a mobile robot for topological navigation tasks. IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications. Sitges. Spain. Sep, 2011.
- V.Egido; R.Barber; M.J.L.Boada; M.A.Salichs. Autonomous Monitoring And Reaction To Failures In A Topological Navigation System. 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Barcelona. Spain. Sep, 2005. . ISBN: 972-8865-30-9. INSTICC. pp.383-386. 2005.
- V.Egido; M.J.L.Boada; R.Barber; M.A.Salichs. A Door Lintel Locator Sensor for Mobile Robot Topological Navigation. IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications. Sofia. Bulgaria. Sep, 2005. . ISBN: 0-7803-9446-1. IEEE Service Center. pp.173-178. 2005.
- V.Egido; R.Barber; M.J.L.Boada; M.A.Salichs. A Planner For Topological Navigation Based On Previous Experiences. The 5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles. Lisboa. Portugal. Jul, 2004. . ISBN: 0-08-043899-7. . pp.0-0. 2004.
- A.M.Khamis; F.J.Rodríguez; R.Barber; M.A.Salichs. Sistema de Interaccion Remota con Robots Moviles via Internet. II Jornadas de Redes de Investigaci¶on en Docencia Uni- versitaria. Alicante. Spain. Feb, 2004.
- M.Mata; J.M.Armingol; A.Escalera; M.A.Salichs. Using learned visual landmarks for intelligent topological navigation of mobile robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Taipei. Taiwan. Sep, 2003.
- V.Egido; R.Barber; M.A.Salichs. Corridor exploration in the EDN Navigation System. 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control. Barcelona. Spain. Jul, 2002. Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control. ISBN: 0-08-044295-1. ELSELVIER. pp.0-0. 2002.
- M.Mata; J.M.Armingol; A.Escalera; M.A.Salichs. Learning Visual Landmarks for Mobile Robot Navigation. 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control. Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain. Jul, 2002.
- V.Egido; R.Barber; M.J.L.Boada; M.A.Salichs. Self-Generation by a Mobile Robot of Topological Maps of Corridors. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Washington. USA. May, 2002. . ISBN: 0-7803-7272-7. IEEE. pp.2662-2667. 2002.
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Doctoral Thesis
- V.Egido. Sistema de navegación topológica para robots móviles autónomos. Supervisors: R.Barber; M.A.Salichs. Sobresaliente "Cum Laudem". 2003.
- M.Mata. Sistema de reconocimiento visual de objetos orientado a la navegación topológica de robots móviles autónomos. Supervisors: M.A.Salichs; J.M.Armingol. Sobresaliente "Cum Laudem". 2002.
- R.Barber. Desarrollo de una arquitectura para robots móviles autónomos. Aplicación a un sistema de navegación topológica. Supervisors: M.A.Salichs; L.Moreno. Sobresaliente "Cum Laudem". 2000.

Updated on 2013-04-14 by Ramón Barber

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