Robot semantic navigation has received significant attention recently, as it aims to achieve reliable mapping and navigation accuracy. Object detection tasks are vital in this endeavor, as a mobile robot needs to detect and recognize the objects in the area of interest to build an effective semantic map. To achieve this goal, this paper classifies and discusses recently developed object detection approaches and then presents the available vision datasets that can be employed in robot semantic navigation applications. In addition, this paper discusses several experimental studies that have validated the efficiency of object detection algorithms, including Faster R-CNN, YOLO v5, and YOLO v8. These studies also utilized a vision dataset to design and develop efficient robot semantic navigation systems, which is also discussed. According to several experiments conducted in a Fablab area, the YOLO v8 object classification model achieved the best results in terms of classification accuracy and processing speed.
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