Fernandez-Madrigal and Claraco (both U. of Malaga, Spain) examine how mobile robots designed to interact with humans in service environments know where they are, where other things are, and how to get where they are needed. Writing for practitioners and graduate students, they cover robotic, probabilistic, and statistical basics; robot motion and sensor models; mobile robot localization with recursive Bayesian filters; types and constructions of maps for mobile robots; the Bayesian approach to simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); and advanced SLAM techniques.
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