EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Aditya Parandekar
dblp:382/7940
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
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
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
exploration |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 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 |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map Predictions · ICRA 2025 |
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
map prediction |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | 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
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MapEx: Indoor Structure Exploration with Probabilistic Information Gain from Global Map PredictionsabstractExploration 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 |
ICRA | 4 |