Loop closing in topological maps

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4367-4372

  Beevers, Kristopher R ^a   Huang, Wesley H ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY;

FALSE ALARMS; MULTIPLE LOOP-CLOSING;

MAPPING;

EID: 33846143167     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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