Robot steering with spectral image information

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 247-251

  Ackerman, Christopher ^a   Itti, Laurent ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous robot; Fourier transform; Gist of a scene; Navigation; Path following; Vision

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; POSITION CONTROL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STEERING; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT NAVIGATION; PATH FOLLOWING; REAL TIME VISUAL NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM; ROBOT NAVIGATION; ROBOT STEERING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 18144402036     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.837241     Document Type: Article

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