Centering behavior with a mobile robot using monocular foveated vision

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 207-218

  Ebner, Marc ^a   Zell, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FLOWS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

COMPLEX LOG MAPPING; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; MONOCULAR FOVEATED VISION; TRANSLATORY MOTION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034274886     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(99)00127-X     Document Type: Article

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