Probabilistic localization and mapping in appearance space

This thesis is concerned with the problem of place recognition for mobile robots. How can a robot determine its location from an image or sequence of images, without any prior knowledge of its position, even in a world where many places look identical? We outline a new probabilistic approach to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cummins, Mark
Other Authors: Newman, Paul
Published: University of Oxford 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525283