SLL: Relations to Kohonen SOMs

The simultaneous localization and learning (SLL) is an indoor localization technique based on existent radio communication networks. It originally takes received signal strength (RSS) as measured feature, used as input on an adaptive and iterative process based on Kohonen self organizing maps (SOMs) in order to learn and improve a feature map. The present paper points the main characteristics from both SLL and SOM, their differences and similarities. The somewhat generic formulation for SOMs acquire physical meanings with SLL that act as a constrainment, making the SLL a very particular case of SOM. The proofs for one dimensional SOMs are complemented by the proofs presented for the SLL by the authors in previous articles.