General SLAM & 2002 School Material

Henrik I Christensen (Ed.)
Centre for Autonomous Systems
Kungl Tekniska Högskolan
SE-100 44 Stockholm
hic@nada.kth.se

1  Table of Contents

1.1  Lecture Notes

• Euardo Nebot
• Henrik Christensen
• Wolfram Burgard

• Raja Chatila
• Eduardo Nebot

1.2  Additional presentations/material

2  Software

3  Related papers

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