Contextual Navigation andMapping forRescue Robots

Theneedforimproving therobustness andtheability takeasthebasis ofourapproach, highlights arelationship toadapt todifferent operational conditions isakeyrequirement for withamorerecent stream ofworkontheuseofsemantic awider deployment ofrobots inmanyapplication domains. Tothisknowledge inrobotics (15); inparticular, contextual knowl- end,usesofcontextual information haveproven tobeeffective in . ' t manyrobotic applications. Inthis paper, we present a casestudyedgelabout theenrment isstrcl reatto semantic ontheuseofcontextual information forrescue robots. Thegoalknowledge. Forexample, there aresystems thatcanimprove istoshowthat contextual informnation canbeusedtoimprove the themapconstruction process, byknowing thattherobot is system performance, bydynamically tailoring thefunctionalities of currently movinginthecorridor ofanoffice building. therobot tothespecific features ofthesituation athand. Thecase Inthiswork, we summarize several usesofcontextual study includes several experiments, bothinsimulation andonarealk robot, which address twocore tasks inrescue applications: navigation knowledge that havebeenproposed intheliterature regarding andmapping.