A robust visual odometry and precipice detection system using consumer-grade monocular vision

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3421-3427

  Campbell, Jason ^a,b   Sukthankar, Rahul ^a,b   Nourbakhsh, Illah ^b,c   Pahwa, Aroon ^b  

^a INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile robot vision; Mobile robotics; Odometry; Optical flow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

MOBILE ROBOT VISION; ODOMETRY; OPTICAL FLOW; REAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846183787     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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