Chapter 3.1

The State of the Art in Mapping and Navigation for Household Service

Long Han1, Borislav Dzodzo1, Huihuan Qian1,2,  and Yangsheng Xu1,2     1The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China     2Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Abstract

Mapping, localization, and navigation are functions necessitated by a diverse range of household service robot solutions. This chapter presents a wide variety of mapping, localization, and navigation techniques that suit a wide range of robot platforms and applications. The problem of mapping and localization has been approached in many ways and we review successful results attained by traditional radio tracking, ultra wideband sensing, RFID ...

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