Underwater 3D SLAM through entropy minimization

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 3562-3567

  Sáez, Juan Manuel ^a   Hogue, Andrew ^b   Escolano, Francisco ^a   Jenkin, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOTION ESTIMATION; ROBOTICS; STEREO VISION; UNDERWATER PROBING;

AUTONOMOUS INSPECTION; EGOMOTION ESTIMATION; ENTROPY MINIMIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33845619592     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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