Abstract

o widen the range of application and deployment of robots, both in research and in industrial contexts, we need to develop more powerful and flexible robotic systems exhibiting higher degrees of autonomy and able to sense, plan, and operate in unstructured environments. For that, the robot must be able to interact coherently with its world, both by being able to recover robust and useful spatial descriptions of its surroundings using sensory information and by efficiently utilizing these descriptions in appropriate short-term and long-term planning and decision-making activities.

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