TY - CHAP AU - Silvia Botelho AU - Gabriel Oliveira AU - Paulo Drews AU - Monica Figueiredo AU - Celina Haffele ED - Hanafiah Yussof Y1 - 2010-03-01 PY - 2010 T1 - Visual Odometry and Mapping for Underwater Autonomous Vehicles N2 - Localization and mapping are the essence of successful navigation in mobile platform technology. Localization is a fundamental task in order to achieve high levels of autonomy in robot navigation and robustness in vehicle positioning. Robot localization and mapping is commonly related to cartography, combining science, technique and computation to build a trajectory map that reality can be modelled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. This book describes comprehensive introduction, theories and applications related to localization, positioning and map building in mobile robot and autonomous vehicle platforms. It is organized in twenty seven chapters. Each chapter is rich with different degrees of details and approaches, supported by unique and actual resources that make it possible for readers to explore and learn the up to date knowledge in robot navigation technology. Understanding the theory and principles described in this book requires a multidisciplinary background of robotics, nonlinear system, sensor network, network engineering, computer science, physics, etc. BT - Robot Localization and Map Building SP - Ch. 19 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/9274 DO - 10.5772/9274 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -