Aditya Parandekar

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Reinforcement learning · 87% Robot navigation and mapping · 13%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
exploration
0.912025
MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions · ICRA 2025
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › exploration › information-theoretic exploration
information-gain-based exploration
0.912025
MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions · ICRA 2025
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
map prediction
0.312025
MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions · ICRA 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

probabilistic information gain · 0.9deep learning-based map prediction · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions
abstract
Exploration is a critical challenge in robotics, centered on understanding unknown environments. In this work, we focus on structured indoor environments, which often exhibit predictable, repeating patterns. Conventional frontier-based exploration approaches have difficulty leveraging this predictability, relying on simple heuristics such as ‘closest first’ for exploration. More recent deep learning-based methods predict unknown regions of the map for information gain computation, but these approaches are often sensitive to the predicted map quality or fail to account for sensor coverage. To overcome these issues, our key insight is to jointly reason over what the robot can observe and its uncertainty to calculate probabilistic information gain. We introduce MapEx, a new exploration framework that uses predicted maps to form probabilistic sensor model for information gain estimation. MapEx generates multiple predicted maps based on observed information, and takes into consideration both the computed variances of predicted maps and estimated visible area to estimate the information gain of a given viewpoint. Experiments on the real-world KTH dataset showed on average 12.4% improvement than representative map-prediction based exploration and 25.4% improvement than nearest frontier approach. Website: https://mapex-explorer.github.io/
Cherie Ho, Seungchan Kim, Brady G. Moon, Aditya Parandekar, Narek Harutyunyan, Chen Wang 0033, Katia P. Sycara, Graeme Best, Sebastian A. Scherer
ICRA4