A novel approach for robot homing

IEEE Conference on Control Applications - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1477-1482

  Koku, A B ^a   Sekmen, A ^b   Wilkes, D M ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Tennessee State University   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egocentric navigation; Homing behavior; Qualitative navigation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

EGOCENTRIC NAVIGATION; QUALITATIVE NAVIGATION; ROBOT HOMING;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0344495434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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