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From: tk11957@medtronic.COM (Tim M. Kunau)
Subject: Re: Spatial Mapping in Robotics: Citations Wanted
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John Nagle (nagle@netcom.com) wrote:
> wbb@duke.cs.duke.edu (William) writes:
> >	I am interested in using multi-media, graphics techniques
> >	in relation to automatic theorem-proving, in a similar
> >	fashion to the way natural language is used as an inter-	
> >	face to diagnostic systems.  The application I have in
> >	mind is a system where a map could be given as input,
> >	a request could be made for a route between two points,
> >	and a route could be derived using the map, certain
> >	constraints and a user model.  The output might be a map as
> >	well.  The degree of sophistication required by a user model
> >	and flexible route generation would require the map to be 
> >	translated into some sortof intermediate form, perhaps similar 
> >	to prolog clauses.  
>      
>        Assuming you really mean spatial maps, not topological ones,
> see "Robot Motion Planning", by Jean-Claude Latombe (Kluwer, 1991, ISBN
> 0-7923-9129-2).

Or perhaps,

    "Using Occupancy Grids for Mobile Robot Perception and Navigation", 
    by Alberto Elfes, Carnegie Melon University, IEEE Computer Magazine, 
    June 1989, page 46.

Hope this helps,

Tim
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