Mobile Robotics: Research, Applications and Challenges

This overview paper discusses some of the major focuses of current mobile robotics research, introduces a specic application of mobile robotics | automated inspection using autonomous novelty detection | and presents one of the future challenges of mobile robotics research: that of applying quantitative methods in mobile robotics, in order to change the discipline from an empirical one to a more precise science.

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