Hierarchical map building and planning based on graph partitioning

Mobile robot localization and navigation requires a map - the robot's internal representation of the environment. A common problem is that path planning becomes very inefficient for large maps. In this paper we address the problem of segmenting a base-level map in order to construct a higher-level representation of the space which can be used for more efficient planning. We represent the base-level map as a graph for both geometric and appearance based space representations. Then we use a graph partitioning method to cluster nodes of the base-level map and in this way construct a high-level map, which is also a graph. We apply a hierarchical path planning method for stochastic tasks based on Markov decision processes (MDPs) and investigate the effect of choosing different numbers of clusters

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