Map Data Representation and Fundamental Data Types

This Study Group aims to develop a consensus on the needs for common representation for robot map data, including metric, topological, and semantic maps. The Study Group will investigate the potential for standardizing fundamental data types for mapping and study existing map data representations from other SDOs including the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) and the ISO. As part of its work, it will determine how detailed the standardized data types used in map representation need to be. The study group will set up a long-term roadmap for developing specifications for map data representation and discuss how to represent, encode, and exchange map data for robot navigation. The leads for this Study Group are Wonpil Yu (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea) and Geoffrey Biggs (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan).