Vision-based navigation by a mobile robot with obstacle avoidance using single-camera vision and ultrasonic sensing

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 969-978

  Ohya, Akihisa ^a   Kosaka, Akio ^b   Kak, Avinash ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile robot; Non stop navigation; Obstacle avoidance; Self localization; Ultrasonic sensing; Vision

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; NAVIGATION; SENSORS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

ULTRASONIC SENSING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032311960     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.736780     Document Type: Article

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