"Where am I?"

Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning

by J. Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and L. Feng


 

This book, written in 1996, is a 282 page report on mobile robot positioning systems. It is posted in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf). If you have placed the Acrobat plugin in your browser's plugin folder, you can view the book within your browser. Using the menu to the left you can choose which chapter to view.


 

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Sensors for Dead Reckoning

Heading Sensors

Ground-Based RF-Beacons and GPS

Sensors for Map-Based Positioning

Odometry and Other Dead-Reckoning Methods

Active Beacon Navigation Systems

Landmark Navigation

Map-based Positioning

Vision-Based Positioning