SLAM
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Author: Dr. Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney
on Amazon.Dr. Hugh Durrant-Whyte accepted the invitation on 4 May 2008 (self-imposed deadline: 4 July 2008).
The simultaneous localization and mapping (.SLAM) problem asks if it is possible for a mobile robot to be placed at an unknown location in an unknown environment and for the robot to incrementally build a consistent map of this environment while simultaneously determining its location within this map.
| Invited by: | Dr. Jan Peters, Max-Planck Institute, Germany & University of Southern California, USC |
