The active kinematic histogram method for path planning of non-point, non-holonomically constrainted mobile robots

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 373-395

  Katevas, Nikos I ^a   Tzafestas, Spyros G ^b  

^a Zenon SA Industrial Automation   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FUNCTIONS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; VELOCITY CONTROL;

ACTIVE KINEMATIC HISTOGRAM (AKH) METHOD; ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; VECTOR FIELD HISTOGRAM (VFH) METHOD;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032314515     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855398X00253     Document Type: Article

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