Markus Waibel writes,
“In the new episode of the Talking Robots Podcast series we interview
Prof. Raja Chatila, an
expert in robot navigation. Raja Chatila is a professor at the
Laboratoire d’Analyse et
d’Architecture des Systemes (LAAS) in
Toulouse, France. He is very well known for robot control and
navigation, and has designed robots that walk, drive and fly in outdoor
environments, on factory floors, inside the home, and on
extra-terrestrial planets. In some of his current projects he is working
on assistant and companion robots (COGNIRON) and on
planetary rovers (EDEN). He talks about the
state of the art in robot navigation, on how to marry
traditional Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) with
bio-inspired, reactive approaches, and about why your living room is more
complex to navigate than an extraterrestrial planet.”