Literature Survey

The survey is organized into sections covering prior work on various aspects presented in the subsequent chapters. Since a core component of the material presented in this book is description of an FPGA-based mobile robot developed for experiments, review of prior work on sensors and processors for mobile robots is first taken up. This is followed by a review of the literature on robotic exploration, landmark determination and navigation. Finally, we touch upon applications where FPGAs have been hitherto employed.