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According to Wikipedia's article on SLAM, the original idea came from Randal Smith and Peter Cheeseman (On the Estimation and Representation of Spatial Uncertainty [PDF]) in 1986, and was refined by Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte and J.J. Leonard (Simultaneous map building and localization for an autonomous mobile robot) in 1991.

However, neither paper uses the term "SLAM". Where (and when) did that term come from? Was there a particular author or whitepaper that popularized it?

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  • I ask because I'm working on a paper that has a similar "simultaneously do X and use X to do Y" subject, and I'm curious about what made the idea -- complicated as it is to implement -- compelling enough to become ubiquitous. I'd like to see how it was presented, and what was the state of the art at the time. – Ian Dec 01 '12 at 22:15
  • +1 for "Simultaneous map building and localization for an autonomous mobile robot". – CroCo May 20 '14 at 19:30

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According to this SLAM tutorial,

The structure of the SLAM problem, the convergence result and the coining of the acronym ‘SLAM’ was first presented in a mobile robotics survey paper presented at the 1995 International Sym- posium on Robotics Research.

which refers to this paper ->

H. Durrant-Whyte, D. Rye, and E. Nebot. Localisation of automatic guided vehicles. In G. Giralt and G. Hirzinger, editors, Robotics Research: The 7th International Symposium (ISRR’95), pages 613–625. Springer Verlag, 1996.

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