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I'm not entirely sure what you are describing in the second half, but a good starting point for learning SLAM might be Sebastian Thrun's Udacity course:

http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs373/CourseRev/apr2012

Mine you, I haven't actually done this course yet, just heard lots of good things about it. SLAM is part of the syllabus in Unit 6.