Samenvatting 114Where is the robot? Humans have an excellent notion of their current surroundings. Even if somebody kidnaps us and puts us in an unknown location, we can describe the characteristics of this new place without much effort. Our knowledge and experience of our world allow us to identify shapes, geometry, and objects that are around us. Besides, we can correctly connect a series of observations from our senses to build a spatial map. We are so good at it that even without vision, and with some training, we can move around a block and find our starting position. We do get lost, but usually, with a hint of a landmark, a passerby, or our phone's GPS, we adjust our estimated location. We can program robots to partially perform the localization and mapping tasks by using a variety of sensors such as cameras and range Chapter
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