Quick and dirty localization for a lost robot

Proceedings - 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 262-267

  Gerecke, Uwe ^a   Sharkey, Noel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lost robot problem; Neural network learning; Robot localization; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CANDIDATE LOCATIONS; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; DIFFERENT SIZES; LOCALISATION; LOCALIZATION METHOD; LOSE ROBOT PROBLEM; NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; ROBOT PROBLEMS; SATISFACTORY DEGREE;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 25944437206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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