PlaceNav: Topological Navigation through Place Recognition

Lauri Suomela,Jussi Kalliola,Harry Edelman,Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen,Lauri Suomela,Jussi Kalliola,Harry Edelman,Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

Recent results suggest that splitting topological navigation into robot-independent and robot-specific components improves navigation performance by enabling the robot-independent part to be trained with data collected by robots of different types. However, the navigation methods’ performance is still limited by the scarcity of suitable training data and they suffer from poor computational scaling...