Toward safe navigation in urban environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6561, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ye, Cang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended terrain map; Laser rangefinder; Mixed pixels; Obstacle negotiation; Polar traversability index; Traversability analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PIXELS; RADIO NAVIGATION; RANGE FINDERS;

EXTENDED TERRAIN MAPS; LASER RANGEFINDER; MIXED PIXELS; OBSTACLE NEGOTIATION; POLAR TRAVERSABILITY INDEX; TRAVERSABILITY ANALYSIS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 35948979350     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.718970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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