Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore a new way of autonomous mapping. Current systems using perception techniques like LAZER or SONAR use probabilistic methods and have a drawback of allowing considerable uncertainty in the mapping process. Our approach is to break down the environment, specifically indoor, into reachable areas and objects, separated by boundaries, and identifying their shape, to render various navigable paths around them. This is a novel method to do away with uncertainties, as far as possible, at the cost of temporal efficiency. Also this system demands only minimum and cheap hardware, as it relies on only Infra-Red sensors to do the job.

Amiraj Dhawan, Parag Oak, Rahul Mishra and George Puthanpurackal, “Path Based Mapping Technique for Robots ” International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence(IJARAI), 2(5), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJARAI.2013.020509

@article{Dhawan2013,
title = {Path Based Mapping Technique for Robots },
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence},
doi = {10.14569/IJARAI.2013.020509},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJARAI.2013.020509},
year = {2013},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {2},
number = {5},
author = {Amiraj Dhawan and Parag Oak and Rahul Mishra and George Puthanpurackal}
}