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Variable-Resolution Virtual Maps for Autonomous Exploration with Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)
Description
Autonomous exploration by unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in near-shore waters requires reliable localisation and consistent mapping over extended areas, but this is challenged by GNSS degradation, environment-induced localisation uncertainty, and limited on-board computation. Virtual map-based methods explicitly model localisation and mapping uncertainty by tightly coupling factor-graph SLAM with a map uncertainty criterion. However, their storage and computational costs scale poorly with fixe