An Efficient and Continuous Approach to Information-Theoretic Exploration

Theia Henderson,Vivienne Sze,Sertac Karaman,Theia Henderson,Vivienne Sze,Sertac Karaman

Exploration of unknown environments is embedded and essential in many robotics applications. Traditional algorithms, that decide where to explore by computing the expected information gain of an incomplete map from future sensor measurements, are limited to very powerful computational platforms. In this paper, we describe a novel approach for computing this expected information gain efficiently, a...