A view of future technologies and challenges for the automation of localisation processes: Visions and scenarios

Abstract

Scenarios are often used to cope with uncertainty in areas with long planning horizons and research. They provide a vehicle that can play an important role in the development of shared visions of the future: creating powerful expectations of the potential of emerging technologies and mobilising resources necessary for their realisation. This paper describes a Web-based problem solving environment providing such a scenario by tracing, sharing, executing, and monitoring examples through a number of current localisation research topics, prototypes, and imagined as well as real technologies. For each of its components, it will consider related opportunities, drivers, barriers and challenges, and describe the key technological building blocks required. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.