Teaching Robots to Map Large Environments
The artificial intelligence-driven system incrementally creates and aligns smaller submaps of the scene that it stitches together to reconstruct a full 3D map (like this office cubicle) while estimating the robot’s position in real time.
A robot searching for workers trapped in a partially collapsed mine shaft must rapidly generate a map of the scene and identify its location within that scene as it navigates the treacherous terrain.