What does Monte Carlo localisation mean?
A particle filter used to find a robot's pose on a known map: move the particles by odometry, weight them by comparing the real sensor reading with the reading each pose would give, and resample. Often shortened to MCL.
In a lesson
The three steps in a loop, on a moving robot. This is MCL, and it is what ran on almost every research robot of the 2000s and most of the vacuum cleaners of the 2010s.
Learn it
- Taught in U7.6 Monte Carlo localisation Localisation, University