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11.11 End Notes 11 Localization and Map Making
Robot name trivia.
CARMEL stands for Computer Aided Robotics for Maintenance, Emergency, and
Life Support. Many of Moravec’s robots are named for (distant) planets: Neptune,
Uranus, Pluto.
Uncertainty and mapping.
The figures of hallways were generated by Brian Sjoberg and Jeff Hyams at the Uni-
versity of South Florida and Bill Adams at the Naval Research Laboratory. Alan
Schultz and Bill Adams also provided the description of ARIEL.
