Robotics Basics - Navigation

Although having a simple definition, which is, finding the way in the environment to a certain place, navigation is one of the most important tasks and problem that the robotics field has studied and worked on. Navigation has a lot of minor problems/tasks that have to be accomplished in order to properly navigate the environment:

• Localization: finding where you are 20220209185424
• Search: looking at the goal location
• Path planning: planning how to reach the goal 20220209185522
• Coverage: covering all of an area 20220209185811
• SLAM: localization and mapping at the same time 202202009185717
• Exploration: finding where I haven’t been 20220309201750

Notes References

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References

(Murphy 2000) (Matariâc 2007)

Matariâc, Maja J. 2007. The Robotics Primer. Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.

Murphy, Robin. 2000. Introduction to AI Robotics. Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.