A survey on active simultaneous localization and mapping: State of the art and new frontiers

JA Placed, J Strader, H Carrillo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of planning and
controlling the motion of a robot to build the most accurate and complete model of the …

Riemannian optimization for active mapping with robot teams

A Asgharivaskasi, F Girke… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration of unknown environments using a team of mobile robots demands
distributed perception and planning strategies to enable efficient and scalable performance …

Learning continuous control policies for information-theoretic active perception

P Yang, Y Liu, S Koga… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a method for learning continuous control policies for exploration and
active landmark localization. We consider a mobile robot detecting landmarks within a …

Active mapping via gradient ascent optimization of shannon mutual information over continuous se (3) trajectories

A Asgharivaskasi, S Koga… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of active mapping aims to plan an informative sequence of sensing views given
a limited budget such as distance traveled. This paper considers active occupancy grid …

Policy Learning for Active Target Tracking over Continuous Trajectories

P Yang, S Koga, A Asgharivaskasi… - … for Dynamics and …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper proposes a novel\emph {model-based policy gradient algorithm} for tracking
dynamic targets using a mobile robot, equipped with an onboard sensor with a limited field …

Active SLAM over continuous trajectory and control: A covariance-feedback approach

S Koga, A Asgharivaskasi… - 2022 American Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method
with continuous trajectory optimization over a stochastic robot dynamics model. The problem …

Active Sensing Control for Differentially Flat Systems

O Napolitano, A Pinizzotto… - IEEE Control …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an optimal active perception strategy using the Constructibility Gramian
(CG) as a metric to quantify the richness of the information acquired along the planned …

Cooperative 3-D Active Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking

J Xu, P Zhu, W Ren - 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for the 3-D active multi-robot multi-target tracking
problem in a distributed manner. For a team of robots equipped with sensors, we design the …

Moving Target Estimation and Active Tracking in Multi-Robot Systems

J Xu, P Zhu, Y Zhang, W Ren - 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a comprehensive solution for 3-D active target tracking with
multiple robots in a fully distributed setting. Here multiple robots cooperatively estimate their …

Robotic Exploration using Generalized Behavioral Entropy

A Suresh, C Nieto-Granda, S Martinez - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.10161, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work presents and evaluates a novel strategy for robotic exploration that leverages
human models of uncertainty perception. To do this, we introduce a measure of uncertainty …