The ARK project: Autonomous mobile robots for known industrial environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 83-104

  Nickerson, S Bruce ^a   Jasiobedzki, Piotr ^f   Wilkes, David ^a,b   Jenkin, Michael ^b   Milios, Evangelos ^b,d   Tsotsos, John ^f   Jepson, Allan ^f   Bains, O Narinder ^c,e  

^a ONTARIO HYDRO TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^d Forschungsinstitut fur anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung   (Germany)

^e Austin Rover Cars   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Industrial robots; Mobile robots; Sensing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

LASER SCANNING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032180355     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00032-3     Document Type: Article

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