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This page describes details on using the Pioneer Robots from ActivMedia.

?: how does a pioneer robot know that it has gotten to the correct room in the upper left corner of the office world? -mhristov

We can ask this even more generally: how does a robot know that it is at any particular location?

There are three possible answers:

  1. it knows by its internal reckoning

  2. it knows by landmarks (features in the world)

  3. it knows by a combination of 1 and 2

Option 1 is noisy. Option 2 is hard. Probably the way to go is Option 3.

How would you do that?

You probably want to have a series of steps (states, goals). For example:

  1. go straight until the left wall ends

  2. turn left 90 degrees

  3. go straight until the left wall ends

  4. turn left 90 degrees

  5. pass three doors on your right

  6. turn, face door

  7. go through door

Something like that should work.

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