---
title: "Modeling Spatial Knowledge"
authors:
  - "Benjamin Kuipers"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/66"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0066.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "292-297"
track: "Representation of Knowledge"
keywords:
---

# Modeling Spatial Knowledge

Benjamin Kuipers

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 292-297.

## Abstract

A person's cognitive map, or knowledge of large-scale space, 1s built up from observations gathered as he travels through the environment. It acts ,as a problem-solver to find routes and relative positions, as well as describing the current location. The TOUR model describes the multiple representations that make up the cognitive map, the problem-solving strategies it uses, and the mechanisms for assimilating new information. The representations have rich collections of states of partial knowledge, which support many of the attractive qualities of common-sense knowledge.