Building a local floor map by use of ultrasonic and omni-directional vision sensors

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 433-453

  Wei, Shih Chieh ^a   Yagi, Yasushi ^a   Yachida, Masahiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOTION PLANNING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

OMNIDIRECTIONAL VISION SENSORS; ULTRASONIC SENSORS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0032308246     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855398X00280     Document Type: Article

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