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Obadiah Lam

2 accepted papers

2016

Find my office: Navigating real space from semantic descriptions

ICRA 2016

This paper shows that by using only symbolic language phrases, a mobile robot can purposefully navigate to specified rooms in previously unexplored environments. The robot intelligently organises a symbolic language description of the unseen environment and “imagines” a representative map, called th

Cited by 19SourceScholar
2015

Robot navigation using human cues: A robot navigation system for symbolic goal-directed exploration

ICRA 2015poster

In this paper we present for the first time a complete symbolic navigation system that performs goal-directed exploration to unfamiliar environments on a physical robot. We introduce a novel construct called the abstract map to link provided symbolic spatial information with observed symbolic inform…

Cited by 38SourceScholar