Measurement and correction of systematic odometry errors in mobile robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 869-880

  Borenstein, Johann ^a,b   Feng, Liqiang ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERROR CORRECTION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; POSITION MEASUREMENT;

ABSOLUTE POSITION MEASUREMENTS; ODOMETRY; SYSTEMATIC ODOMETRY ERRORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0030414418     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.544770     Document Type: Article

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