Efficient exploration without localization

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2714-2719

  Batalin, Maxim A ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; SENSORS;

ROBOT MOTION; ROBOT SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0344153858     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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