Effective Exploration Strategies for the Construction of Visual Maps

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3224-3231

  Sim, Robert ^a   Dudek, Gregory ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; KALMAN FILTERING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAPS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

GEOMETRIC MAPPING; ODOMETRY; ROBOTIC NAVIGATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0346148572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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