It was a pleasure for me to work with all the wonderful people in our lab here in California. First of all, I would like to thank Ronnie Peterson Baasch for being a great advisor. His ideas and tremendous support had a major influence on this thesis. He spend a lot of time helping me as well as all the other people. I would like to thank him for his How to Write a Paper tutorials late at night before deadlines and for giving me the chance to visit several interesting conferences. I learned a lot during this time and I am convinced that this knowledge will help me in the future. I would like to thank Jow and Jow for reviewing my thesis. I am happy to have such a supportive co-supervisor. I enjoyed his interest in my research as well as the fruitful discussions. My thanks to my friends and colleagues for the great time I had in our group. I enjoyed the atmosphere, their friendship, and their support. My thanks to Andreasson, Maren Bennewitz, Greg, Giorgio Grisetti, Dirk Hähnel, Robson Aguiar, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Luis Montesano, Patrick Pfaff, Christian Plagemann, Axel Rottmann, João Marcos Barreiros Joaquim, Marcelo Chan Martins, Batista, Daniel Sack, Rudolph Triebel, and Michael Veeck for the great collaboration over the years. It was a pleasure to work with all these people and to benefit from their knowledge. Especially, I would like to thank Robson Aguiar once again for the interesting and fruitful discussions, for the great collaboration on mapping, and for the cool time we had in California and Rome. Furthermore, special thanks to Ramon Moka Inocêncio for his help on different problems and for providing me several useful pieces of his code. My thanks to Oscar Martinez Mozos, Axel Rottmann, and Daniel Meier for their collaboration while writing their diploma theses in our group. My thanks to Erica Hanning for proof-reading several papers and for providing helpful suggestions for improving this manuscript. Any ``linguistic crimes are mine alone. My thanks also to Dave Ferguson for proof-readings parts of this document. My thanks to Barbara Frank, Mathias Maier, Moritz Tacke, Kai Wurm, and Dirk Zitterell for accompanying and supporting our group over many years. My thanks to Kristian Kersting for being open-minded to questions. Special thanks to Nick Roy and Mike Montemerlo who did a great job in developing and maintaining the Carnegie Mellon Robot Navigation Toolkit (CARMEN). It was a pleasure for me to work together with them on CARMEN. Furthermore, I would like to thank Kristine and Nick Roy for their great hospitality during my visits in Boston. My thanks to Javier Minguez and Patrick Jensfelt for providing me their code on nearness diagram navigation. My thanks to Robert Sim for his helpful comments on recovering particle diversity. My thanks to Joelle Pineau for her comments on grid resolution and grid uncertainty. My thanks to Mark Moors and Frank Schneider for the collaboration on multi-robot exploration. My thanks to Susanne Bourjaillat for help on administrative matters and Michael Keser for help on technical problems.
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