Mapping the environment is a powerful technique for enabling autonomy through localization and planning in robotics. This article seeks to provide global overview of actionable map construction robotics, outlining basic problems, introducing techniques overcoming them, directing reader toward established research covering these problem solution domains more detail. Multiple levels abstraction a...

We present a new form of summarization for scientific domains in the form of conceptual maps which model the hierarchy and the relations among problems and solutions in a domain as presented in scientific articles.

Due to the lack of an integral study about Cognitive Maps that focus on the causal phenomenon, this work introduces the underlying concepts towards a Holistic Conceptual Model, enhanced by a profile of several versions. We illustrate this by their application to Web-based Education Systems. From the causal perspective, Cognitive Maps depict and simulate the systems dynamics based upon qualitati...

Research in map generalization starts to focus on other types of maps than on topographic maps only. Therefore, new generalization concepts have to be developed, extending on the experiences and research efforts originally made in topographic generalization. This paper presents a new conceptual framework of map generalization with respect to thematic mapping based on an analysis of the literatu...

In computer vision, the exponential map is the natural generalisation of the ordinary exponential function to matrix elements. The technique is based on generating a manifold embedding of the geometric features of the scene on which to estimate trajectories primarily of motion or invariance. An advantage of using the exponential map is the existence of a closed form time-update equation for the...