Estimating uncertain spatial relationships in robotics
Autonomous robot vehicles
Navigating Mobile Robots: Systems and Techniques
Navigating Mobile Robots: Systems and Techniques
Map Building through Self-Organisation for Robot Navigation
EWLR-8 Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Learning Robots: Advances in Robot Learning
Think globally, fit locally: unsupervised learning of low dimensional manifolds
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Simultaneous localization, mapping and moving object tracking
Simultaneous localization, mapping and moving object tracking
A generalized Mahalanobis distance for mixed data
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
UAI'02 Proceedings of the Eighteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
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The neural representation of space in rats has inspired many navigation systems for robots. In particular, Self-Organizing (Feature) Maps (SOM) are often used to give a sense of location to robots by mapping sensor information to a low-dimensional grid. For example, a robot equipped with a panoramic camera can build a 2D SOM from vectors of landmark bearings. If there are four landmarks in the robot’s environment, then the 2D SOM is embedded in a 2D manifold lying in a 4D space. In general, the set of observable sensor vectors form a low-dimensional Riemannian manifold in a high-dimensional space. In a landmark bearing sensor space, the manifold can have a large curvature in some regions (when the robot is near a landmark for example), making the Eulidian distance a very poor approximation of the Riemannian metric. In this paper, we present and compare three methods for measuring the similarity between vectors of landmark bearings. We also discuss a method to equip SOM with a good approximation of the Riemannian metric. Although we illustrate the techniques with a landmark bearing problem, our approach is applicable to other types of data sets.