Abstract
Mobile robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem is one of the most active research areas in robotics. In the research and simulation of SLAM, MATLAB-based simulators are widely used due to their comprehensive functionalities and simple usage. In this paper, the main open source MATLAB-based simulators for SLAM and their properties are listed. Two representative ones are concretely introduced from the aspects of data creation and import, motion model and observation model, and algorithms implementation. Simulation results of these two simulators indicate that MATLAB-based simulators are convenient and helpful in the robot SLAM research when developing new algorithms and when comparing accuracy, consistency or convergence of different algorithms. The SLAM algorithms widely used in MATLAB-based simulators, including Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) based SLAM algorithm and FastSLAM algorithm, are also introduced.
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