A robust docking strategy for a mobile robot using flow field divergence

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5564-5569

  McCarthy, Chris ^a   Barnes, Nick ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DOCKING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROTATION;

FLOW DIVERGENCE; LOOMING SURFACE; OPTICAL ESTIMATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34250616376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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