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Path Planning in Belief Space with Pose SLAM

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The probabilistic belief networks that result from standard feature-based simultaneous localization and map building methods cannot be directly used to plan trajectories.

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Notes

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    Code accessed from: https://github.com/RainerKuemmerle/g2o.

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    GTSAM Version 3.2.1 accessed from: https://collab.cc.gatech.edu/borg/gtsam.

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    Accessed from: https://svn.openslam.org/data/svn/g2o/trunk/data/2d/manhattan3500/.

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Valencia, R., Andrade-Cetto, J. (2018). Path Planning in Belief Space with Pose SLAM. In: Mapping, Planning and Exploration with Pose SLAM. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60603-3_4

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