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Chapter 2: Fundamental Problems

Chapter 2: Fundamental Problems

pp. 16-28

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, McGill University, Montréal, , York University, Toronto
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Before delving into the harsh realities of real robots, it is worthwhile exploring some of the computational tasks that are associated with an autonomous system. This chapter provides a taste (an amuse bouche, if you will) of some of the computational problems that will be considered in later chapters. Here, these problems are considered in their simplest form, and many of the realities of autonomous systems are ignored. Rest assured, the full complexity of the problems are considered in later chapters.

Keywords

  • Defining a point robot
  • Path planning for a point robot
  • Localization for a point robot
  • Sensing for a point robot
  • Mapping for a point root
  • SLAM for a point robot
  • Looking forward
  • Further reading
  • Problems

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