Learning topological maps: an alternative approach

  • Authors:
  • Arno Bücken;Sebastian Thrun

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bonn, Bonn;University of Bonn, Bonn

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Our goal is autonomous real-time control of a mobile robot. In this paper we want to show a possibility to learn topological maps of a large-scale indoor environment autonomously. In the literature there are two paradigms how to store information on the environment of a robot: as a grid-based (geometric) or as a topological map. While grid-based maps are considerably easy to learn and maintain, topological maps are quite compact and facilitate fast motionplanning.