Distance-optimal navigation in an unknown environment without sensing distances

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 506-518

  Tovar, Benjamín ^a   Murrieta Cid, Rafael ^b   LaValle, Steven M ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bug algorithms; Information spaces; Map building; Minimal sensing; Navigation; Optimality; Sensor based planning; Shortest paths; Visibility

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE-OPTIMAL NAVIGATION; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; MINIMAL SENSING; SENSING DISTANCE; SENSOR-BASED PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; MAPPING; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34447334541     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.898962     Document Type: Article

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