An experiment in integrated exploration

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 534-539

  Makarenko, Alexei A ^a   Williams, Stefan B ^a   Bourgault, Frederic ^a   Durrant Whyte, Hugh F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION CONTROL; NAVIGATION; VECTORS;

ROBOTIC EXPLORATION; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAP BUILDING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036451052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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