ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the tools and Navigation, Path Planning and Mapping, and Adaptive Techniques. Path planning and navigation algorithms are attempts to address quality tasks in robots than mere reactive one and bring more predictibility to the robot behaviour and design. Potential field navigation is a cornerstone paradigm for robotics. The potential field approach was designed for robotic arm manipulators, and was later extended to mobile robots. Navigation in three dimensions has been successful in designing virtual characters in game programming or virtual reality application, but there is a lack of navigation in real time. Mapping the local area using laser or sonars, over continued surveys has come to be closely associated with robot navigation. Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping starts with an empty two dimension map, and incrementally adds features to it over each sweeps of the given local area. Learning for sophisticated tasks over long term implementation will lead to development of newer and advanced behavioural modules.
