The robot localization problem

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1120-1138

  Guibas, Leonidas J ^a   Motwani, Rajeev ^a   Raghavan, Prabhakar ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational geometry; Geometric algorithms; Localization; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GEOMETRIC ALGORITHMS; STAR SHAPED POLYGON;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0031211416     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0097539792233257     Document Type: Article

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