Biasing Frontier-Based Exploration with Saliency Areas
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| author | Luperto, Matteo Stakanov, Valerii Boracchi, Giacomo Basilico, Nicola Amigoni, Francesco |
| author_facet | Luperto, Matteo Stakanov, Valerii Boracchi, Giacomo Basilico, Nicola Amigoni, Francesco |
| contents | Autonomous exploration is a widely studied problem where a robot incrementally builds a map of a previously unknown environment. The robot selects the next locations to reach using an exploration strategy. To do so, the robot has to balance between competing objectives, like exploring the entirety of the environment, while being as fast as possible. Most exploration strategies try to maximise the explored area to speed up exploration; however, they do not consider that parts of the environment are more important than others, as they lead to the discovery of large unknown areas. We propose a method that identifies \emph{saliency areas} as those areas that are of high interest for exploration, by using saliency maps obtained from a neural network that, given the current map, implements a termination criterion to estimate whether the environment can be considered fully-explored or not. We use saliency areas to bias some widely used exploration strategies, showing, with an extensive experimental campaign, that this knowledge can significantly influence the behavior of the robot during exploration. |
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| spellingShingle | Biasing Frontier-Based Exploration with Saliency Areas Luperto, Matteo Stakanov, Valerii Boracchi, Giacomo Basilico, Nicola Amigoni, Francesco Robotics Autonomous exploration is a widely studied problem where a robot incrementally builds a map of a previously unknown environment. The robot selects the next locations to reach using an exploration strategy. To do so, the robot has to balance between competing objectives, like exploring the entirety of the environment, while being as fast as possible. Most exploration strategies try to maximise the explored area to speed up exploration; however, they do not consider that parts of the environment are more important than others, as they lead to the discovery of large unknown areas. We propose a method that identifies \emph{saliency areas} as those areas that are of high interest for exploration, by using saliency maps obtained from a neural network that, given the current map, implements a termination criterion to estimate whether the environment can be considered fully-explored or not. We use saliency areas to bias some widely used exploration strategies, showing, with an extensive experimental campaign, that this knowledge can significantly influence the behavior of the robot during exploration. |
| title | Biasing Frontier-Based Exploration with Saliency Areas |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10689 |