Mobile robot obstacle avoidance via depth from focus

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-158

  Nourbakhsh, Illah R ^a   Andre, David ^c   Tomasi, Carlo ^b   Genesereth, Michael R ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Categorization; Focus; Obstacle avoidance; Vision

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; FOCUSING; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

FOCUS BASED SYSTEM; PASSIVE VISION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031269833     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(97)00051-1     Document Type: Article

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