Blanche—An Experiment in Guidance and Navigation of an Autonomous Robot Vehicle

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 193-204

  Cox, Ingemar J ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMICS; ROBOTICS - SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS - REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEHICLES - NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT VEHICLE BLANCHE; MOTOR ERROR CONTROL; ROBOT TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

ROBOTS, INDUSTRIAL;

EID: 0026136157     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.75902     Document Type: Article

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