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Exploration is a fundamental problem in robotics. While sampling-based planners have shown high performance and robustness, they are oftentimes compute intensive and can exhibit high variance. To this end, we propose to learn both components of sampling-based exploration. We present a method to directly learn an underlying informed distribution of views based on the spatial context in the robot&#x2019;s map, and further explore a variety of methods to also learn the information gain of each sample. We show in thorough experimental evaluation that our proposed system improves exploration performance by up to 28&#x0025; over classical methods, and find that learning the gains in addition to the sampling distribution can provide favorable performance vs. compute trade-offs for compute-constrained systems. We demonstrate in simulation and on a low-cost mobile robot that our system generalizes well to varying environments.

Fast and Compute-Efficient Sampling-Based Local Exploration Planning via Distribution Learning