Temporal range registration for unmanned ground and aerial vehicles

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-69

  Madhavan, R ^a   Hong, T ^a   Messina, E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative registration; LADAR; Position estimation; Unmanned ground and aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; GROUND VEHICLE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL RADAR;

ITERATIVE REGISTRATION; POSITION ESTIMATION; UNMANNED GROUND AND AERIAL VEHICLES;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33645280885     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-005-9025-1     Document Type: Article

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