Representation and Learning of Spatial Maps

How animals acquire, store, update, and use spatialrepresentations of their environments for localizationand navigation is one of the central questions in CognitiveScience and Neuroscience. Design of robust algorithmsfor spatial learning for mobile robots for exploringa-priori unknown environments is one of the keyproblems in robotics and artificial intelligence. Thispaper describes some approaches to acquiring, representing,retrieving, and updating spatial maps usingsensory...