A two-stage mobile robot localization method by overlapping segment-based maps

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 213-225

  Reina, Antonio ^a   Gonzalez, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hough transform; Map registration; Mobile robot self localization; Radial laser scanner; Segment based map

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012214253     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(99)00098-6     Document Type: Article

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