IEEE

Robust Room Contour Extraction from 2D Home Metric Maps under Cluttered Layouts and Map Noise for Domestic Robots

Abstract: Room area extraction from occupancy grid maps of home environments is critical for enabling robotic room-level spatial awareness of environmental structures, serving as a foundation for ...
IEEE

Topo-Geometrically Distinct Path Computation Using Neighborhood-Augmented Graph, and Its Application to Path Planning for a Tethered Robot in 3-D

Abstract: Many robotics applications benefit from being able to compute multiple geodesic paths in a given configuration space. Existing paradigm is to use topological path planning, which can compute ...
PC Magazine

Heading to South Korea? Using Google Maps May Soon Be Possible

Using Google Maps May Soon Be Possible South Korea is planning to reverse a longstanding policy that has made travel mainstay Google Maps largely useless in the country until now.
Houston Chronicle

These 10 Houston-area neighborhoods may be most affected by FEMA’s new flood maps

After years of delay, FEMA released a new set of flood maps that overhaul Harris County’s floodplain boundaries for the first time since 2007. A Houston Chronicle analysis found the draft maps would ...