Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: On the Potential of Smarter Multi-layer Maps   The most common way for robots to handle environmental information is by
using maps. At present, each kind of data is hosted on a separate map, which
complicates planning because a robot attempting to perform a task needs to
access and process information from many different maps. Also, most often
correlation among the information contained in maps obtained from different
sources is not evaluated or exploited. In this paper, we argue that in robotics
a shift from single-source maps to a multi-layer mapping formalism has the
potential to revolutionize the way robots interact with knowledge about their
environment. This observation stems from the raise in metric-semantic mapping
research, but expands to include in its formulation also layers containing
other information sources, e.g., people flow, room semantic, or environment
topology. Such multi-layer maps, here named hypermaps, not only can ease
processing spatial data information but they can bring added benefits arising
from the interaction between maps. We imagine that a new research direction
grounded in such multi-layer mapping formalism for robots can use artificial
intelligence to process the information it stores to present to the robot
task-specific information simplifying planning and bringing us one step closer
to high-level reasoning in robots.

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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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