Real-time area-covering operations with obstacle avoidance for cleaning robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2359-2364

  Luo, Chaomin ^a   Yang, Simon X ^a   Yuan, Xiaobu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSORS;

CLEANING ROBOT; COMPLETE COVERAGE PATH PLANNING; ROBOT PATH;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0036452567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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