An evolutionary approach to visual sensing for vehicle navigation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 18-29

  Broggi, Alberto ^a   Cellario, Massimo ^b   Lombardi, Paolo ^b   Porta, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ant systems; Automatic vehicle guidance; Evolutionary algorithms; Intelligent transportation systems (ITS); Intelligent vehicles; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

ANT BASED APPROACH; HOUGH BASED SOLUTION; TERRAIN SLOPES; UNFRIENDLY ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; VEHICLE NAVIGATION; VISUAL SENSING;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037320485     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2002.807688     Document Type: Article

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