Reading materials

course literature homepage.

Lecture notes
Lecture 1 - 3 (pdf, 2 MB)
Lecture 4   (pdf, 490 kB)
Lecture 5 (pdf, 490 kB)
Lecture 6a (pdf, 280 kB)
Lecture 6b (pdf, 1 MB)
Lecture 8-9 (pdf, 2 MB)

Papers and Questions
W. Lechner and S. Baumann, Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 25, Issues 1-2, January 2000, Pages 67-85. Paper - Questions (pdf, 15 kB)

C. M. Wang, Location Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis for Mobile Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 24-29 April, 1988, pp. 1231-1235. Paper - Questions (pdf, 74 kB)

A-J. Baerveldt and R. Klang, A Low-cost and Low-weight Attitude Estimation System for an Autonomous Helicopter, Intelligent Engineering Systems, 1997. INES '97. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, 15-17 Sept., 1997, pp. 391-395. Paper - Questions (pdf, 22 kB)

I. J. Cox, Blanche - An Experiment in Guidance and Navigation of an Autonomous Robot Vehicle, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Volume 7, No. 2, pp. 193-204, April, 1991. Paper - Questions (pdf, 21 kB)

P. S. Maybeck, The Kalman Filter: An Introduction to Concepts, Autonomous Robot Vehicles, I. J. Cox and G. T. Wilfong, Eds., New York: Springer-Verlag. Paper - Questions (pdf, 19 kB)

K. O. Arras, N. Tomatis, B. T. Jensen and R. Siegwart, "Multisensor On-the-fly Localization: Precision and Reliability for Applications", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, pp. 131-143, 2001. Paper - Questions (pdf, 20 kB)

J. Borenstein and Y. Koren, The Vector Field Histogram - Fast Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Robots, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Volume 7, No. 3, pp. 278-288, June, 1991. Paper - Questions (pdf, 63 kB)

S. Shoval, I. Ulrich and J. Borenstein, NavBelt and the GuideCane, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 9-20, March, 2003. Paper - Questions (pdf, 62 kB)

Extra material

Where am I?
Sensors and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning, J. Borenstein, H.R. Everett and L. Feng, Technical report, University of Michigan, April, 1996 available as PDF.

Statistics - and what you need to know about it,
Ola Bengtsson, University of Halmstad, March, 2004 PDF (pdf, 130 kB) - SLIDES. (powerpoint, 1 MB)

Sensors for Mobile Robots
H.R. Everett, A. K. Peters, Ltd, ISBN: 1-56881-048-2, Canada, 1995.

Autonomous Robot Vehicles
I. J. Cox and G. T. Wilfong, AT & T, ISBN: 0-387-97240-4, USA, 1990.

University Library Full Text Databases - Especially ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore and Kluwer Online Journals

Lecture Notes of Jizhong Xiao

Guest lecture of Nuria Rosillo Guerrero, Introduction (powerpoint, 5 MB) - The PUMA robot (powerpoint, 1 MB)