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Automatic Mapping of the Indoor World with Personal Radars
Digital maps will revolutionize our experience of perceiving and navigating
indoor environments. While today we rely only on the representation of the
outdoors, the mapping of indoors is mainly a part of the traditional SLAM
problem where robots discover the surrounding and perform self-localization.
Nonetheless, robot deployment prevents from a large diffusion and fast mapping
of indoors and, further, they are usually equipped with laser and vision
technology that fail in scarce visibility conditions. To this end, a possible
solution is to turn future personal devices into personal radars as a milestone
towards the automatic generation of indoor maps using massive array technology
at millimeter-waves, already in place for communications. In this
application-oriented paper, we will describe the main achievements attained so
far to develop the personal radar concept, using ad-hoc collected experimental
data, and by discussing possible future directions of investigation