Decentralized Certainty Grid Maps

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3258-3263

  Makarenko, Alexei A ^a   Williams, Stefan B ^a   Durrant Whyte, Hugh F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; STEREO VISION; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECENTRALIZED DATA FUSION; GRID MAPS; PICTURE COMPILATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0347409311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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