Omnidirectional vision scan matching for robot localization in dynamic environments

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 523-535

  Menegatti, Emanuele ^a   Pretto, Alberto ^a   Scarpa, Alberto ^a   Pagello, Enrico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mobile robot localization; Monte Carlo localization; Omnidirectional vision; Scan matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION; MONTE CARLO LOCALIZATION; OMNIDIRECTIONAL CAMERA; OMNIDIRECTIONAL VISION; SCAN MATCHING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33745177290     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.875495     Document Type: Article

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