The localization problem for mobile robots

Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 521-531

  Kleinberg, Jon M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GEOMETRIC ALGORITHM; KNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; LOCALISATION; LOCALIZATION PROBLEMS; MARS ROVERS; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; SEARCH TECHNIQUE;

LOCATION;

EID: 0000636382     PISSN: 02725428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SFCS.1994.365739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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