Mapping and Navigation from Permutations of Landmarks

Tovar, Benjamin; Freda, Luigi; LaValle, Steven M.

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Mapping and Navigation from Permutations of Landmarks

Author(s)

• Tovar, Benjamin
• Freda, Luigi
• LaValle, Steven M.

Issue Date

2006-08

Keyword(s)

robotics

Abstract

"This paper considers a robot that moves in the plane and is only able to sense the cyclic order of landmarks with respect to its current position. No metric information (e.g., coordinates) is available regarding the robot or landmark positions; moreover, the robot does not have a compass or odometers. We carefully study the information space (belief space) of the robot, and establish its capabilities in terms of mapping the environment and accomplishing tasks, such as navigation and patrolling. The information space can be nicely characterized using the notion of ""order type"", which provides information powerful enough to determine which points lie inside the convex hulls of subsets of landmarks."

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