Mobile robot localization using landmarks

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 251-263

  Betke, Margrit ^a   Gurvits, Leonid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Landmark navigation; Map algorithms; Mobile robot localization; Robotics; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; TRACKING (POSITION); TRIANGULATION;

LANDMARK NAVIGATION; MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031124057     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.563647     Document Type: Article

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