Quantitative Assessment of Navigation Solutions
for Mobile Robots

Events:

• Workshop at the 2008 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS'08) (CFP)
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Date: June 28, 2008
  http://kaspar.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~rss/

• This workshop is the first in a series of workshops whose primary focus is to bring together what is currently an amorphous research community to define standardized methods for the quantitative evaluation of navigation solutions and robot-generated maps that will enable mobile robots to operate in dynamic unstructured environments. This workshop will seek to develop test methods to classify the performance characteristics of navigation solutions that facilitate the inter-comparison of experimental results. It will also attempt to define a de facto standard testbed for evaluation of navigation solutions that will provide a baseline for comparison and will provide the mechanisms targeting specific aspects of a system thus allowing researchers to assess the performance of various systems in different scenarios and environmental conditions.

• Special Session at the 2008 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS`08) (CFP)
  National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A.
  August 19 - 21, 2008
  http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/PerMIS_2008

The emphasis of this workshop will be on how to assess the quality of robot-generated maps and the development of standardized test methods that target specific aspects of the navigation solutions. Determining what environmental situations are problematic for specific algorithms will assist us in developing elemental testing scenarios that will help us better understand how these errors impact the overall performance of the system. In turn, these testing scenarios will foster the development of more robust algorithms that have implemented mechanisms for overcoming these errors.