Cheap vision—exploiting ecological niche and morphology

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1963, Issue , 2000, Pages 202-226

  Pfeifer, Rolf ^a   Lambrinos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; LANDMARK NAVIGATION; SNAPSHOT MODEL; SYNTHETIC METHODOLOGY; VISUAL ODOMETRY; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 33751584539     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44411-4_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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