PhD Thesis Proposal
PhD Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Physical Process-Informed Mapping for Robotic Exploration

NSH 4305

Abstract: Mobile robots used for information gathering tasks rely on dense, predictive mapping of large-scale regions to determine where to take measurements. Current approaches to mapping commonly rely on Gaussian process regression to spatially correlate data, extrapolate from sparse samples, and estimate uncertainty. However, these approaches do not incorporate meaningful information about physical processes that [...]