Date:Wed, 28 Oct 2009
From:Alex Levin
Subject:SPAMS this Thursday, 5PM, 2-105
Hi everyone,

This week I will be speaking about the robot kidnapping problem.  Dinner will
follow in the applied math common room.  See you at the talk.

George

Speaker: George

Title: "Beep - bop - boop, oh no I've been kidnapped..."

Abstract:
Two well known problems in robotics are localization and mapping.  In the
localization problem, we are given an accurate map of our environment and the
robot must determine its location from sensor data, such as sonar or laser
range finders.  On the other hand, mapping is the problem of drawing a map of
our environment given accurate pose data.  But what if we don't have a map and
our odometry is noisy?  This is colloquially known as the robot kidnapping
problem and more technically the Simultaneous Localization And Mapping problem.
 In my talk, I will introduce algorithms for localization, mapping, and the
basics of "solving" SLAM.
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