Application of voting to fusion of purposive modules: An experimental investigation

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 253-266

  Pirjanian, Paolo ^a   Christensen, Henrik I ^b   Fayman, Jeffrey A ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Behavior based control; Command fusion; Purposive vision; Voting

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION;

PURPOSIVE VISION; VOTING TECHNIQUES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0032120009     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00012-8     Document Type: Article

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