Self-localization is a crucial requirement for visual robot place recognition. Particularly, the 3D point cloud obtained from laser rangefinders (LRF) applied to it. The critical part efficiency and accuracy of recognition robots based on cloud. current solution converting clouds 2D images, then processing these with convolutional neural network (CNN) classification. Although popular scan-conte...

This paper addresses the problem of cross-season visual place classification (VPC) from a novel perspective of long-term map learning. Our goal is to enable transfer learning efficiently from one season to the next, at a small constant cost, and without wasting the robot’s available longterm-memory by memorizing very large amounts of training data. To realize a good tradeoff between generalizat...

Research has shown that an increase in students’ interest in science and engineering can have a positive effect on their achievement (Baird, 1986; Eccles & Wigfield, 2002; French, Immekus & Oakes, 2005; Schiefele, Krapp, & Winteler, 1992; SchwartzBloom & Haplin, 2003; Weinburgh, 1995). Whereas many NSFfunded programs in materials science and nanotechnology have included efforts to develop curri...

Self-driving vehicles need a robust positioning system to continue the revolution in intelligent transportation. Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are most commonly used accomplish this task because of their ability accurately locate vehicle environment. However, recent publications have revealed serious cases where GNSS fails miserably determine position vehicle, for example, under br...

— In the classical context of robotic mapping and localization, map matching is typically defined as the task of finding a rigid transformation (i.e., 3DOF rotation/translation on the 2D moving plane) that aligns the query and reference maps built by mobile robots. This definition is valid in loop-rich trajectories that enable a mapper robot to close many loops, for which precise maps can be as...

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