Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping

This book brings together the fields of robot spatial mapping and cognitive spatial mapping, which share some common core problems. One would reasonably expect some cross—fertilisations of research between the two areas to have occurred, and this has happened but only recently. There are signs that both fields have matured and that efforts to cross—fertilise are happening, but it is neither complete nor common yet.

Robot spatial mapping, in this book, is about the problem of a robot comput...