Autonomous construction of hierarchical voronoi-based Route Graph representations

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3343, Issue , 2005, Pages 413-433

  Wallgrün, Jan Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; MAPPING; NAVIGATION; ROBOTS;

GENERALIZED VORONOI DIAGRAM (GVD); GRAPH STRUCTURE; ROUTE GRAPH REPRESENTATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 26444465554     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32255-9_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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