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   University of Twente PO Box 217 7500 AE Enschede THE NETHERLANDS +31534898190 v.v.lehtola@utwente.nl home page
Co-Chair
	Dorota Iwaszczuk   TU Darmstadt Remote Sensing & Image Analysis Franziska-Braun-Str.7 64287 Darmstadt GERMANY +49 6151 16-22570 dorota.iwaszczuk@tu-darmstadt.de home page
Co-Chair
	Yuan 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 yuan.zhuang@whu.edu.cn home page
Secretary
	Vincenzo di Pietra   Politecnico di Torino DIATI Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 10129, Torino (TO) ITALY +39 0110907657 vincenzo.dipietra@polito.it home page
Supporters
Supporter
	Heikki Hyyti   NLS Vuorimiehentie 5 02150 Espoo FINLAND +358407718099 heikki.hyyti@nls.fi home page
Supporter
	Phillipp Fanta-Jende   AIT Giefinggasse 4 1210 Vienna AUSTRIA +43 664 8839 0736 phillipp.fanta-jende@ait.ac.at home page

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