Summary of Symboslam: Semantic Map Generation in a Multi-agent System, by Brandon Curtis Colelough
SymboSLAM: Semantic Map Generation in a Multi-Agent System
by Brandon Curtis Colelough
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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| Summary difficulty | Written by | Summary |
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed novel approach, Symbolic Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SymboSLAM), bridges the explainability gap in environment-type classification by employing ontological reasoning to synthesise context from features. The method presents operators with classifications overlaid on a semantically labelled occupancy map of landmarks and features. SymboSLAM is evaluated with ground-truth maps of the Canberra region, demonstrating effectiveness through simulations and real-world trials. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SymboSLAM is a new way to understand environments by using special language rules (ontological reasoning) to make sense of what’s there. It helps explain why things are classified in certain ways. This approach uses features like landmarks and maps to show people how the environment was classified. The team tested SymboSLAM with real-world data from Canberra and saw that it worked well. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification
