Beyond Memory Limits: A Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Map Representation for Large-Scale 3D Autonomous Exploration
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This research presents FLAVOR, a hierarchical spatio-temporal framework designed to address memory constraints in autonomous UAV exploration. By confining dense metric geometry to a robot-centric local map and retaining compact global observation and task context, FLAVOR achieves significant reductions in exploration time and map memory footprint compared to baseline methods, both in simulated environments and real-world deployments such as forest and construction site scenarios.
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Reported quantity · map memory footprint reduction: 31.98 other · Basis not reported · Differing source assertions
“ration viewpoint from observations, while the topological route is instantiated and validated against the current local map before execution. Dense-map capacity remains fixed as exploration expands, with exploration-dependent memory growth confined to compact observation and task context.FLAVOR achieves 31.98--41.88% shorter exploration time and a 94--99% smaller map memory footprint than the best baseline that compl”
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Reported quantity · map memory footprint reduction: 41.88 other · Basis not reported · Differing source assertions
“ration viewpoint from observations, while the topological route is instantiated and validated against the current local map before execution. Dense-map capacity remains fixed as exploration expands, with exploration-dependent memory growth confined to compact observation and task context.FLAVOR achieves 31.98--41.88% shorter exploration time and a 94--99% smaller map memory footprint than the best baseline that compl”
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Reported quantity · map memory footprint reduction: 94 other · Basis not reported · Differing source assertions
“ration viewpoint from observations, while the topological route is instantiated and validated against the current local map before execution. Dense-map capacity remains fixed as exploration expands, with exploration-dependent memory growth confined to compact observation and task context.FLAVOR achieves 31.98--41.88% shorter exploration time and a 94--99% smaller map memory footprint than the best baseline that compl”
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Reported quantity · map memory footprint reduction: 99 other · Basis not reported · Differing source assertions
“ration viewpoint from observations, while the topological route is instantiated and validated against the current local map before execution. Dense-map capacity remains fixed as exploration expands, with exploration-dependent memory growth confined to compact observation and task context.FLAVOR achieves 31.98--41.88% shorter exploration time and a 94--99% smaller map memory footprint than the best baseline that compl”
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Reported quantity · map memory footprint reduction: 92.67 other · Basis not reported · Differing source assertions
“etes all three simulated scenes. In real-world deployments, it reduces this footprint by 92.67% in the forest and 62.42% at the construction site relative to an explicit point-cloud ikd-tree while preserving long-term task continuity under constrained onboard resources.”
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Reported quantity · map memory footprint reduction: 62.42 other · Basis not reported · Differing source assertions
“etes all three simulated scenes. In real-world deployments, it reduces this footprint by 92.67% in the forest and 62.42% at the construction site relative to an explicit point-cloud ikd-tree while preserving long-term task continuity under constrained onboard resources.”
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- arXiv Robotics — research abstractsSignalBeyond Memory Limits: A Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Map Representation for Large-Scale 3D Autonomous Exploration
This research presents FLAVOR, a hierarchical spatio-temporal framework designed to address memory constraints in autonomous UAV exploration. By confining dense metric geometry to a robot-centric local map and retaining compact global observation and task context, FLAVOR achieves significant reductions in exploration time and map memory footprint compared to baseline methods, both in simulated environments and real-world deployments such as forest and construction site scenarios.
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