Cognitive maps for mobile robots-an object based approach

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 359-371

  Vasudevan, Shrihari ^a   Gächter, Stefan ^a   Nguyen, Viet ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive spatial representation; Conceptualization of space; Robot mapping; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TOPOLOGY;

COGNITIVE SPATIAL REPRESENTATION; CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SPACE; ROBOT MAPPING; SPATIAL COGNITION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34247159985     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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