Mapping with Robots - Jacob Allen

Navigation is one of the core challenges of any form of robotics (at least any form which requires movement). There are several problems which must be solved for navigation, two of the core problems being localisation and mapping, that is, knowing where the robot is in a landscape and knowing that landscape. While they are simple tasks for most humans, they are relatively complex and computationally expensive tasks for robots, particularly those with limited sensors or limited computational power. In this talk I will introduce the concepts behind mapping in robotics, and by extension some of the concepts behind localisation. I will discuss the state of the art, with particular focus on novel approaches using swarm robotics and sparse data which each pose unique problems for localisation and mapping. Finally, I will show an example and talk about the practical complexities of actually implementing mapping in robotics. Join our Discord for the Q&A after the talk: https://discord.gg/e4pBB7 Slides for the talk are available here: https://runciman.hacksoc.org/~jacob/talks/An%20introduction%20to%20Mapping%20with%20Robots.pdf https://hacksoc.org https://twitter.com/hacksoc https://facebook.com/groups/hacksoc https://hacksoc-york.slack.com