Making the WORLD'S SMARTEST ROBOT vacuum DUMBER by building my own crude SLAM stack

This is the story of making the WORLD'S SMARTEST robot vacuum DUMBER by building my own crude SLAM stack from the ground up including all the challenges, failures and successes I faced. Feel free to come along this crazy ride... The whole project is open source, so take a look at the GitHub repository in case you're interested: github.com/locxter/BotvacCenter Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:12 Explaining SLAM, wheel odometry and LIDAR 3:28 Building my own crude SLAM stack 5:58 A quick intervention 6:12 Mapping problems and solutions 10:54 Figuring out autonomous path planning 15:04 Final result 19:12 Accomplishments 20:28 Goodbye Background music: Song: Ariadne - All I Need (feat. Karl Killing) [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Download/Stream: ncs.io/a-allineed Watch: ncs.lnk.to/a-allineedAT/youtube