TITLE

Navigating Mobile Robots. Systems and Techniques

AUTHOR(S) SURNAME, FORENAME

Borenstein, Johann; Everett, H R; Feng, Liquiang.

Places & Countries of PUBLISHERS    YEAR
Publication

Wellesley, MA, USA    A K Peters    

PAGES    ISBN        BINDING    PRICE

xii+225    1-56881-058-X    Pbk    £39

This book surveys the state of the art in sensors, systems, methods and technologies utilized by a mobile robot to determine its position in the environment. The many potential "solutions" are roughly categorized into two groups: relative and absolute position measurements. The first includes odometry and inertial navigation; the second comprises active beacons, artificial and natural land-mark recognition and model matching. The authors compare and analyze these different methods based on technical publications and on commercial product and patent information. Comparison is centred around the following criteria: accuracy of position and orientation measurements, equipment needed, cost, sampling rate, effective range, computational power required, processing needs, and other special features. (From the back cover.)

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