15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
DYNAMIC ROBOT LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING USING UNCERTAINTY SETS
M. Di Marco A. Garulli A. Giannitrapani A. Vicino
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Siena,
Via Roma, 56-53100 Siena, Italia

This paper addresses the simultaneous localization and mapping problem in an environment where indistinguishable landmarks can be detected. A set theoretic approach to the problem is presented. Algorithms for measurement-to-feature matching, estimation of landmark positions, estimation of robot location and heading are derived in terms of uncertainty regions, under the hypothesis that errors affecting all sensor measurements are unknown-but-bounded. The proposed technique is validated in an experimental setup.
Keywords: Mobile robots, localization, mapping, uncertainty, set membership
Session slot T-Fr-A19: Robot Control/Area code 1d : Robotics