A technique that maps a place while tracking its own location.
SLAM is like your first trip through a giant IKEA. You look for the bathrooms while drawing the maze in your head.
It helps machines map new places and know their own spot. You meet it in robots, driverless cars, and AR apps.
Robotics
SLAM helps a robot know where it is while it moves.
Kalman Filter
SLAM often uses a Kalman Filter to mix sensor data and estimate pose.
Computer Vision
Visual SLAM uses image features to rebuild the shape of a place.
Spatial Intelligence
SLAM gives Spatial Intelligence a map and a location to start from.