simultaneous localization and mapping
Technique allowing a robot to build a map of an unknown environment while tracking its own position within it.
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DARPA Centibots Project
DARPA funded the Centibots project, a multi-institution effort to demonstrate coordinated autonomous mapping and search using up to 100 mobile robots simultaneously, with results reported from 2003. It addressed whether large teams of robots could self-organise without continuous human supervision.