A method for mobile robot navigation on rough terrain

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3863-3869

  Ye, Cang ^a   Borenstein, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion context; Obstacle avoidance; Obstacle negotiation; Terrain traversability analysis; Traversability field histogram; Traversability map; Vector field histogram

Indexed keywords

MOTION-CONTEXT; OBSTACLE NEGOTIATION; TERRAIN TRAVERSABILITY ANALYSIS; TRAVERSABILITY FIELD HISTOGRAM; TRAVERSABILITY MAP; VECTOR FIELD HISTOGRAM;

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPS; NAVIGATION; VECTORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042642019     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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