Author: Divya Agarwal

Divya Agarwal is an engineer and researcher working in the autonomous vehicle and robotics industry. She has secured eight patents in autonomous driving and seen firsthand the progress being made towards making self-driving cars a reality at Nio, Aptiv, and Delphi. Agarwal's most recent work at Nio was published at IEEE ICRA 2020. She is currently working as a roboticist at Facebook.

How SLAM Works for Self-Driving Cars: A Brief but Detailed Overview

Today we rely on GPS and Google Maps to tell us how to get from point A to point B. Similarly, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is how autonomous vehicles find their way in the world. In this article, we will discuss how autonomous vehicles use Simultaneous Localization and Mapping to navigate the environment around […]