Mobile Robot Navigation
Robotic systems that plan and execute motion through environments using sensing, localization, maps, and control.
Core metadata
- ID: mobile_robot_navigation
- Era: Modern
- First known date: 1966 (exact)
- Region: Stanford Research Institute / Shakey mobile robot project
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Drone Aerial Mapping (drone_aerial_mapping)
- Drone Autonomy (drone_autonomy)
- Humanoid General-Purpose Robots (humanoid_general_purpose_robots)
- SLAM Robotics (slam_robotics)
- Warehouse Autonomous Mobile Robots (warehouse_autonomous_mobile_robots)
Fields
Field lanes
- Robotics & Autonomous Systems: Mobility & Navigation
Node sources
- Shakey - CHM Revolution (Computer History Museum, 2026, museum) • Supports: node
- Milestones:SHAKEY: The World's First Mobile Intelligent Robot, 1972 (Engineering and Technology History Wiki, 2024, textbook) • Supports: node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
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| Robotics (robotics) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Robotics provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Global Positioning System (GPS) (gps) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Global Positioning System (GPS) provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Cybernetics (cybernetics) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Cybernetics provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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