A dynamical model of visually-guided steering, obstacle avoidance, and route selection

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 54, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 13-34

  Fajen, Brett R ^a   Warren, William H ^a   Temizer, Selim ^b   Kaelbing, Leslie Pack ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Obstacle avoidance; Optic flow; Path planning; Robot navigation; Visual control of locomotion

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; OPTICAL FLOWS;

ROBOT NAVIGATION; ROUTE SELECTION; VISUALLY-GUIDED STEERING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0141519154     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1023701300169     Document Type: Article

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