LOLA's entry in the Office Delivery event of the 1995 Robot Competitio
n and Exhibition, held in conjunction with the Fourteenth Internationa
l Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, was the culmination of
a three-month design and implementation period for an indoor navigatio
n system for topological maps. This article describes the major compon
ents of the robot''s navigation architecture. It also summarizes the e
xperiences and lessons learned from the competition.