Visual odometry on the Mars Exploration Rovers

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 903-910

  Cheng, Yang ^a   Maimone, Mark ^a   Matthies, Larry ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egomotion; Mars Exploration Rover; MER; Motion Estimation; Visual Odometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CYBERNETICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOTION ESTIMATION; SPACE RESEARCH; STEREO VISION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EGOMOTION; MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS (MER); STEREO IMAGES; VISUAL ODOMETRY;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 27944469487     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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