Feature extraction for outdoor mobile robot navigation based on a modified Gauss-Newton optimization approach

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 277-287

  Zhang, Sen ^a   Xie, Lihua ^a   Adams, Martin David ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Data association; Feature extraction; Mobile robot; Optimization; Semi structured outdoor environments

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSOCIATION; SEMI-STRUCTURED OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33644905860     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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