Autonomous mobile robot that can read

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 2650-2662

  Létourneau, Dominic ^a   Michaud, François ^a   Valin, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robot; Character recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CAMERAS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL THEORY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; ONBOARD PROCESSING; ZOOM CAMERA;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 14944385385     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865704408142     Document Type: Article

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