Semantic Mapping

On Tuesday we will study SLAM, without worrying about language.  SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is an important problem in robotics. 

Tuesday 10/14:

• Durrant-Whyte, Hugh, and Tim Bailey. Simultaneous localization and mapping: part I. Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE 13.2 (2006): 99-110.

Then, on Thursday 10/17 we will study one attempt to integrate slam with language:

• Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.  Online Probabilistic Topological Mapping.  IJRR 2011.
• Matthew R. Walter, S. Hemachandra, B. Homberg, S. Tellex, and S. Teller. Learning semantic maps from natural language descriptions. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Berlin, Germany, June 2013 (accepted, to appear). 

Since you are working on your project proposals there is no required blog post assignment.  But feel free to post a question or comment if you'd like!