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Cooperative Localization and Mapping in Sparsely-communicating Robot Networks

This thesis examines the use of multiple robots in cooperative simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), where each robot must estimate the poses of all robots in the team, along with the positions of all known landmarks. The robot team must operate under the condition that the communication network between robots is never guaranteed to be fully connected. Under this condition, a novel algorithm is derived that allows each robot to obtain the centralized-equivalent estimate in a decentralized manner, whenever possible. The algorithm is then extended to a decentralized and distributed approach where robots share the computational burden in considering different data association hypotheses in generating the centralized-equivalent consensus estimate.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/32809
Date31 August 2012
CreatorsLeung, Keith Yu Kit
ContributorsBarfoot, Timothy D., Liu, Hugh
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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