A vision-based pragmatic strategy for autonomous navigation

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1221-1239

  Kundur, Sridhar R ^a,c   Raviv, Daniel ^a,b  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Sharp Digit Info Products   (United States)

Author keywords

Active vision; Collision avoidance; Dynamic vision; Visual navigation

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACTIVE VISION; MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032167013     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00151-9     Document Type: Article

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