SLAM

• Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney

Dr. Hugh Durrant-Whyte accepted the invitation on 4 May 2008 (self-imposed deadline: 4 July 2008).

The simultaneous localization and mapping (.SLAM) problem asks if it is possible for a mobile robot to be placed at an unknown location in an unknown environment and for the robot to incrementally build a consistent map of this environment while simultaneously determining its location within this map.

Sponsored by: Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia

Sponsored by: Jan Peters, Max-Planck Institute, Germany & University of Southern California, USC