1. Enhancing Exploration Efficiency using Uncertainty-Aware Information Prediction
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Kim, Seunghwan, Shin, Heejung, Yim, Gaeun, Kim, Changseung, and Oh, Hyondong
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Computer Science - Robotics - Abstract
Autonomous exploration is a crucial aspect of robotics, enabling robots to explore unknown environments and generate maps without prior knowledge. This paper proposes a method to enhance exploration efficiency by integrating neural network-based occupancy grid map prediction with uncertainty-aware Bayesian neural network. Uncertainty from neural network-based occupancy grid map prediction is probabilistically integrated into mutual information for exploration. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we conducted comparative simulations within a frontier exploration framework in a realistic simulator environment against various information metrics. The proposed method showed superior performance in terms of exploration efficiency., Comment: 7pages
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- 2024