Development of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) for a pipe inspection robot

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 344-349

  Krys, Dennis ^b   Najjaran, Homayoun ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Mobile robotics; Pipe inspection; Sensor fusion; SLAM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INSPECTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PIPE; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

PIPE INSPECTION; PIPE INSPECTION ROBOTS; VISUAL SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING (VSLAM) METHODS; WATER MAINS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34948825421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2007.382850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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