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The initial public release: the code release of An Efficient Beam Search
Algorithm for Active Perception in Mobile Robotics (Qu et al., IJRR 2026).
Added
- Graph planners NBS, DBS, SPT and TSP on a random annulus graph, and the RRT and RRT* tree baselines.
- Gain evaluators for volumetric exploration, surface reconstruction and point collection.
- A plugin for every role, selected by
type:in YAML. open_apero_node, a ROS Noetic planner node for any robot, on a Voxblox map.- A Habitat-sim setup for the paper's HSSD experiments, and an offline graph benchmark that
reproduces the paper's results. - A Docker image for x86_64 hosts other than Ubuntu 20.04.
Getting it
Clone with submodules: git clone --recursive https://github.com/OpenApero/openapero.git. The source archives below do not
include the Voxblox submodule. Documentation: https://openapero.github.io/openapero/