Mapping

  • The “How” the robot understands and remembers its surroundings
  • the key to giving machines vision and memory
  • The process of transforming raw sensor data → coherent representation of the environment
    • cameras
    • LiDAR
    • sonar

Occupancy Grid Mapping (OGM)

  • Divides the world into a grid
    • each square represents a section of space in real life
    • populates it with three types of squares
      • free: nothing is at the square
      • unknown: The square is unknown if the robot’s sensor has not seen the square
      • occupied: there is a wall / object at the position

Localization

Planning

Control