Robot navigation in the real world: experiments with Manchester's FortyTwo in unmodified, large environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 223-242

  Nehmzow, Ulrich ^a   Owen, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; ROBOT LEARNING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SENSORS; SONAR;

MAP BUILDING; MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; ODOMETRY SENSORS; ROUTE LEARNING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034497886     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(00)00098-1     Document Type: Article

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