Download or read book Robotic Exploration and Landmark Determination written by K. Sridharan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents hardware-efficient algorithms and FPGA implementations for two robotic tasks, namely exploration and landmark determination. The work identifies scenarios for mobile robotics where parallel processing and selective shutdown offered by FPGAs are invaluable. The book proceeds to systematically develop memory-driven VLSI architectures for both the tasks. The architectures are ported to a low-cost FPGA with a fairly small number of system gates.