Passive perception system for day/night autonomous off-road navigation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5804, Issue , 2005, Pages 343-358

  Rankin, Arturo L ^a   Bergh, Charles F ^a   Goldberg, Steven B ^b   Bellutta, Paolo ^a   Huertas, Andres ^a   Matthies, Larry H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Indelible Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; FPGA; Infrared; Parallel processing; Passive perception; Sensor head; Stereo vision

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; INFRARED RADIATION; NAVIGATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROPULSION; STEREO VISION;

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; PASSIVE PERCEPTION; SENSOR HEAD;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 27544484793     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.604064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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