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This chapter introduces the fundamental principles of navigation, giving examples of navigation in animals, humans, and robots. Five case studies of navigating mobile robots examine biologically inspired robot navigation, self-localisation, route learning and finding shortcuts in detail.
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Further Reading on Navigation of Animals and Humans
On Animal Navigation
Talbot H. Waterman, Animal Navigation, Scientific American Library, New York, 1989.
C.R. Gallistel, The Organisation of Learning, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1990.
On Human Navigation
Thomas Gladwin,East is a Big Bird, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1970.
D. Lewis, We, the Navigators, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1972.
Further Reading on Robot Navigation
J. Borenstein, H.R. Everett and L. Feng, Navigating Mobile Robots, A K Peters, Wellesley MA, 1996.
G. Schmidt (ed.), Information Processing in Autonomous Mobile Robots Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1991.
Case Study 6: Further Reading
Carl Owen and Ulrich Nehmzow, Route Learning in Mobile Robots through Self-Organisation, Proc. Eurobot 96, pp. 126-133, IEEE Computer Society, 1996.
Carl Owen and Ulrich Nehmzow, Map Interpretation in Dynamic Environments, Proc. 8th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, IEEE Press, ISBN 0-7803-4484-7, 1998.
Ulrich Nehmzow and Carl Owen, Robot Navigation in the Real World: Experiments with Manchester's FortyTwo in Unmodified, Large Environments, International Journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 33, Issue 4, 2000.
Shortcuts and the Cognitive Map: Further Reading
J. O'Keefe and L. Nadel, The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978.
J. Gould, The Locale Map of Honey Bees: Do Insects Have Cognitive Maps?, Science, Vol. 232, 1986.
Ulrich Nehmzow, Toshihiro Matsui and Hideki Asoh, “Virtual Coordinates”:Perception-based Localisation and Spatial Reasoning in Mobile RobotsProc. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 5 (IAS 5), Sapporo 1998. Reprinted in Robotics Today, Vol. 12, No. 3, The Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn MI, 1999.
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Nehmzow, U. (2003). Navigation. In: Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0025-6_5
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