Robot soccer anywhere: Achieving persistent autonomous navigation, mapping and object vision tracking in dynamic environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5827, Issue , 2005, Pages 255-264

  Dragone, Mauro ^a   O'Donoghue, Ruadhan ^a   Leonard, John J ^a,b   O'Hare, Gregory ^a   Duffy, Brian ^a   Patrikalakis, Andrew ^b   Leederkerken, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intelligent Agents; Mapping; Mobile Robots; Navigation; Robot Soccer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MAPPING; NAVIGATION; STUDENTS; VISION;

ROBOT SOCCER; SOFTWARE CONTROL ARCHITECTURES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 27744460552     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.608404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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