Variable-Resolution Virtual Maps for Autonomous Exploration with Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)

arXiv:2603.22667 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-03-24 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-03-24

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/osrf/vorc

Terminology

Variable-Resolution Virtual Map — 11× in this paper
Information Gain — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Reinforcement Learning — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Uniform Virtual Map — 6× in this paper
Deep Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Active SLAM — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Resident Set Size — 3× in this paper
Active Perception — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Fast Shannon Mutual Information — 2× in this paper
Hysteresis — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — 2× in this paper
Active Exploration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Edge Devices — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Heterogeneous Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Nearest Frontier — 1× in this paper
Point Clouds — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Root Mean Square Error — 1× in this paper
Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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