Long-range visual homing

2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 220-226

  Vardy, Andrew ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Insect navigation; Robot navigation; Route following; Visual homing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMIMETICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

GENERAL APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; KEY PARAMETERS; ODOMETRIC; PHOTO-REALISTIC; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTS; SNAPSHOT IMAGES; VISUAL HOMING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34548498227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2006.340381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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