Where am I?

Localization & Positioning

The art of knowing exactly where a robot is in the world, indoors or outdoors.

The Localization Problem

Localization is one of the hardest problems in robotics. Outdoors, we have GPS (though it has errors). Indoors, GPS fails, so robots must use UWB anchors, Visual Odometry (tracking camera movement), or Lidar SLAM to figure out their coordinates.