Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Unscented HybridSLAM

Simultaneous localization and mapping is a situation in which a mobile robot travels through an environment and concurrently makes a momentary map of the environment and uses that map to localize. The simultaneous localization and mapping is currently one of the most challenging problems in the field of autonomous mobile robots and providing a solution to SLAM may open doors to the world of truly autonomous robots. This paper provides a novel approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping problem based on estimation approach. The new approach is called Unscented HybridSLAM filter which addresses the linearization process of an autonomous mobile robot utilizing the second order Sterling polynomial interpolation specifically used for Unscented HybridSLAM algorithm. Using computer simulations, Unscented HybridSLAM and the associated theoretical interpolation is examined for a double-loop scenario and the efficacy of the Unscented HybridSLAM is validated.

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