ISPRS ICWG I/IV

Robotics for Mapping and Machine Intelligence

Mission

The ISPRS Inter Commission Working Group (ICWG) I/IV covers the dual topics of robotics for mapping and mapping for robotics. With the increasing development of robotic platforms and autonomous vehicles, there are new opportunities for automatically mapping large indoor and outdoor environments. At the same time, these autonomous platforms require new types of accurate, up-to-date and navigable base maps at very large scales.

The ISPRS Inter Commission Working Group (ICWG) I/IV aims to promote the development of new methodologies, algorithms and data representations for applying robotics to urban modeling as well as indoor and outdoor mapping. It also promotes the research and development of new map representations supporting robotics and autonomous vehicle navigation. ICWG I/IV particularly addresses the derivation and updating of sustainable rural, urban and building models exploiting sensory input from a potentially large number of autonomous platforms and devices. A special focus will be placed on deriving high-quality environmental map representations from typical consumer-grade sensors present on autonomous platforms. For this purpose, the ICWG I/IV aims at developing and implementing benchmarks for indoor mobile mapping and modeling. To this purpose, the WG works closely with the working groups of Commission I and IV and aims at establishing and strengthening contacts with the robotics community.

Working Group Officers

Chair

Ville V. Lehtola, ChairVille V. Lehtola
 
University of Twente
PO Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
THE NETHERLANDS
+31534898190

 

Co-Chair

Dorota Iwaszczuk, Co-ChairDorota Iwaszczuk
 
TU Darmstadt
Remote Sensing & Image Analysis
Franziska-Braun-Str.7
64287 Darmstadt
GERMANY
+49 6151 16-22570

 

Co-Chair

Yuan Zhuang, Co-ChairYuan Zhuang
 
The State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS)
Wuhan University
No. 129, Luoyu Road
Wuhan, Hubei 430079
CHINA
+86 27 68779689
+86 13429865986

 

Secretary

Vincenzo di Pietra, SecretaryVincenzo di Pietra
 
Politecnico di Torino
DIATI
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
10129, Torino (TO)
ITALY
+39 0110907657

 


Supporters

Supporter
Heikki Hyyti , SupporterHeikki Hyyti
 
NLS
Vuorimiehentie 5
02150 Espoo
FINLAND
+358407718099

 

Supporter
Phillipp Fanta-Jende, SupporterPhillipp Fanta-Jende
 
AIT
Giefinggasse 4
1210 Vienna
AUSTRIA
+43 664 8839 0736

 


Terms of Reference

  • Investigation of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques for robotics, including semantic and metric SLAM
  • Exploration and evaluation of localization and mapping sensors as well as mapping platforms for indoor and outdoor robotics
  • Addressing challenges in employing robotics for mapping and challenges in map representations for robotics and autonomous vehicle navigation, also in real-time applications
  • Exploit synergies between the indoor mobile mapping and building information modeling (BIM)
  • Addressing the derivation and updating of sustainable urban and building models using robot mapping platforms
  • Develop and implement robotic mapping benchmarks
  • Establish and strengthen contacts with the robotics community

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Our Contact

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GERMANY
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