Title:
Data Driven MCMC for Appearance-Based Topological Mapping

dc.contributor.author Ranganathan, Ananth
dc.contributor.author Dellaert, Frank
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing
dc.date.accessioned 2011-04-19T21:09:15Z
dc.date.available 2011-04-19T21:09:15Z
dc.date.issued 2005
dc.description Presented at the 2005 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference I (RSS), 8-11 June 2005, Cambridge, MA. en_US
dc.description.abstract Probabilistic techniques have become the mainstay of robotic mapping, particularly for generating metric maps. In previous work, we have presented a hitherto nonexistent general purpose probabilistic framework for dealing with topological mapping. This involves the creation of Probabilistic Topological Maps (PTMs), a sample-based representation that approximates the posterior distribution over topologies given available sensor measurements. The PTM is inferred using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) that overcomes the combinatorial nature of the problem. In this paper, we address the problem of integrating appearance measurements into the PTM framework. Specifically, we consider appearance measurements in the form of panoramic images obtained from a camera rig mounted on a robot. We also propose improvements to the efficiency of the MCMC algorithm through the use of an intelligent data-driven proposal distribution. We present experiments that illustrate the robustness and wide applicability of our algorithm. en_US
dc.identifier.citation Ranganathan, A. & Dellaert, F. (2005). “Data Driven MCMC for Appearance-Based Topological Mapping”. Proceedings of the 2005 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference I (RSS), 8-11 June 2005. Online. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/38631
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.publisher.original MIT Press
dc.subject Data-driven sampling en_US
dc.subject Markov chain Monte Carlo en_US
dc.subject Mobile robots en_US
dc.subject Topological mapping en_US
dc.title Data Driven MCMC for Appearance-Based Topological Mapping en_US
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dc.type.genre Proceedings
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local.contributor.author Dellaert, Frank
local.contributor.corporatename Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)
local.contributor.corporatename College of Computing
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