Moving obstacle detection from a navigating robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 404-416

  Nair, Dinesh ^a,b   Aggarwal, Jagdishkumar K ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Focus of expansion; Navigation; Optical flow; Polar mapping; Robot; Time to impact; Vanishing points

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL FLOWS;

FOCUS OF EXPANSION; POLAR MAPPING; VANISHING POINTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032095657     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.678450     Document Type: Article

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