Mobile robot self-localisation and measurement of performance in middle-scale environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 57-69

  Duckett, Tom ^a   Nehmzow, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mobile robot navigation; Mobile robot self localisation; Quantitative analysis of robot behaviour

Indexed keywords

MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; SENSORS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; MOBILE ROBOT SELF-LOCALIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032130994     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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