Vehicle following with obstacle avoidance capabilities in natural environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 4283-4288

  Ng, Teck Chew ^a   Ibañez Guzmán, Javier ^a   Shen, Jian ^a   Gong, Zhiming ^a   Wang, Han ^b   Cheng, Chen ^b  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Natural environment; Obstacle avoidance; Path planner; Tracking; Vehicle following

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; PATH PLANNER; TRACKING; VEHICLE FOLLOWING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; AMBULANCE CARS; AUTOMATION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EXTRAPOLATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOGISTICS; MANEUVERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042645549     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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