Motivation: The motivation for this course is to familiarize with algorithms in map building, exploration, localization, planning and real-time navigation using concepts from AI, probability theory and statistics.

Lecture1:
References: None

Lecture2:
References:  (Familiarization of PCA, covariance matrices, eigen values and eigen vectors)

Lectures 3 and 4:
References: 
1. Sonar-based real-world mapping
2. Occupancy Grids for Robot Navigation
3. Forward Sensor Models for Occupancy Grids
4. Coverage Maps
5. Frontier Based Exploration

Lecture 5
References:
1. Grid-Based Navigation for a Mobile Robot

Lecture 6
References:
1. Segment-based localization