Wake-up robot problem

In robotics, the wake-up robot problem refers to a situation where an autonomous robot is carried to an arbitrary location and put to operation, and the robot must localize itself without any prior knowledge.{{cite thesis|url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/doc/10.1.1.62.9672|degree=Master of Science | first = Rudy | last = Negenborn | date = 2003 | title = Robot localization and kalman filters | citeseerx = 10.1.1.62.9672 | publisher = Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University }}{{cite book | author1 = Qingxiang Wu | date = 2002 | chapter = Rough computational methods on reducing cost of computation in Markov localization for mobile robots|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1020777 | title = Intelligent Control and Automation, 2002. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress | volume = 2 | isbn = 0-7803-7268-9 | pages = 1226–1230 | doi = 10.1109/WCICA.2002.1020777 |display-authors=etal}}

The wake-up robot problem is closely related to the kidnapped robot problem.