Robot homing by exploiting panoramic vision

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-25

  Argyros, Antonis A ^a   Bekris, Kostas E ^b   Orphanoudakis, Stelios C ^a   Kavraki, Lydia E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Omni directional vision; Panoramic cameras; Robot homing; Vision based robot navigation

Indexed keywords

OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VISION; PANORAMIC CAMERAS; ROBOT HOMING; VISION-BASED ROBOT NAVIGATION;

CAMERAS; CHARGING (BATTERIES); COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NAVIGATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 18844408859     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-005-0603-7     Document Type: Article

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