Vision-based navigation and environmental representations with an omnidirectional camera

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 890-898

  Gaspar, José ^a,b   Winters, Niall ^c   Santos Victor, José ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; NAVIGATION;

VISUAL SERVOING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034473844     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.897802     Document Type: Article

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