Outdoor visual position estimation for planetary rovers

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-150

  Cozman, Fabio ^a   Krotkov, Eric ^b   Guestrin, Carlos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; MOBILE ROBOTS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TRACKING (POSITION);

PLANETARY ROVERS; ROBOTIC SPACE MISSIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034275680     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008966317408     Document Type: Article

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