This book demonstrates bene?ts of abstract and qualitative reasoning that have not received much attention in the context of autonomous robotics before. Bremen,

This important work is an attempt to synthesize two areas that need to be treated in tandem. The book brings together the fields of robot spatial mapping and co

What is space? Is there space when there are objects to occupy it or is there space only when there are no objects to occupy it? Can there be space without obje

How should a robot represent and reason about spatial information when it needs to collaborate effectively with a human? The form of spatial representation that