This article provides a comprehensive introduction into the field of robotic mapping, with a focus on indoor mapping. It describes and compares various probabilistic techniques, as they are presently being applied to a vast array of mobile robot mapping problems. The history of robotic mapping is also described, along with an extensive list of open research problems.
@INCOLLECTION{Thrun02a,
AUTHOR = {Thrun, S.},
TITLE = {Robotic Mapping: A Survey},
BOOKTITLE = {Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millenium},
PUBLISHER = {Morgan Kaufmann},
YEAR = {2002},
EDITOR = {Lakemeyer, G. and Nebel, B.},
NOTE = {to appear}
}