A novel filter for terrain mapping with laser rangefinders

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 913-921

  Ye, Cang ^a   Borenstein, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Certainty map; Elevation map; Filtering; Laser rangefinder (LRF); Mixed pixels; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA REDUCTION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; RANGE FINDERS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CERTAINTY ASSISTED SPATIAL FILTER; KINEMATIC TRANSFORMATION; LASER RANGEFINDERS (LRF); MIXED PIXELS; TERRAIN MAPPING;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 10244251571     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.829457     Document Type: Article

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