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Thomas G. Tyler
Innovate: to initiate or pioneer. 
Volition: freedom of will, decision, choice. 
Innovolition: the will to create.
A Mapping Program for the Pioneer Mobile Robot

Background/ Rationale

Narrative

Environment

Procedure

End Results Intended

References

References

Pelala, Sreevani. “Robot Path Generator.” Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi CAMS Project Submission. 12 Dec. 2000.

Russell, Stuart J. and Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1995. Pg. 60-61.

Deans, Matthew C. and Martial Hebert, “Invariant Filtering for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping”. IEEE Int’l Conf. On Robotics and Automation, April, 2000, pp.1042-7.

Rencken, W.D. “Concurrent Localization and Map Building for Mobile Robots using Ultrasonic Sensors”. In IROS ’94. pp. 431-38.

Moravec, Hans and Alberto Elfes, “High-Resolution Maps from Wide-Angle Sonar”. In Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf. On Robotics and Automation, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1985.

Thrun, Sebastian. “Probabilistic Algorithms in Robotics”. tech. Report CMU-CS-00-126, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, April 2000.

King, Charles. “Mapping Disaster: SGI Helps Clean Up Chernobyl.” 1999. Silicon Graphics Incorporated. 20 Mar. 2001.www.sgi.com/features/1999/may/chernobyl/index.html

“SGI-Enabled Robot Sent to Chernobyl to Help Prevent Future Nuclear Accidents.” 27 May 1999. Silicon Graphics Incorporated Press Release. 20 Mar. 2001. www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases//1999/may/chernobyl.html

“Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search.” 2000. Carnegie Mellon University. 19 Mar. 2001. http://www.frc.ri.cmu…jects/meteorobot2000/newindex.html

Deans, Matthew. “Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search: Research: Landmark Based Navigation.” 2000. Carnegie Mellon University. 19 Mar. 2001. http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects…ect/landmark_based_navigation.html

Williams, David R. “Magellan Mission to Venus.” 2001. 3pp. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. 19 Mar. 2001. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/magellan.html

Thomas, Vanessa. “Mars Global Surveyor Completes Mapping Mission.” 31 Jan. 2001. Astronomy Magazine Online. 19 Mar. 2001. http://www2.astronomy.com/content/dynamic/articles/000/000/000/293skpwu.asp

Altman, Kyoko. “Team Uses Sub, Robot to Recover Ancient Shipwreck Ruins.” 30 July 1997. CNN Interactive. 19 Mar. 2001. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9707/30/ancient.shipwrecks/index.html

Dietsch, Jeanne. “Re: Question about sonars.” 29 Mar. 2001. Online Users Forum. pioneer-users@activmedia.com.

Lee, Peter M. Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction. New York: John Wiley and Sons (1989). pp. 124-127

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