Cognitive robot mapping with polylines and an absolute space representation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3771-3776

  Laviers, Kennard R ^a   Peterson, Gilbert L ^a  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; GRAPH THEORY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIMULATORS; SONAR;

ABSOLUTE SPACE REPRESENTATIONS (ASR); MEMORY SPACE; ROBOT MAPPING; ROBOT NAVIGATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042690858     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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