Service Oriented Soft Real-time implementation of SLAM capability for mobile robots

Abstract This paper focuses on solving practical challenges inherent from the use of state-of-art mobile robotics techniques in a resource hungry embedded mobile unit without inherent support for hard real-time operation. Such problems include real-time constraints, sensor acquisition independence from robot movement, multi-rate parallel data acquisition and memory limitations.

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