World representations for unmanned vehicles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6561, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Broten, Gregory S ^a   Monckton, Simon P ^a   Mackay, David ^a   Collier, Jack ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Egocentric map; Elevation map; Global map; Grid map; Terrain map

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND VEHICLES; MOTION PLANNING; SENSORS;

EGOCENTRIC MAPS; ELEVATION MAPS; GLOBAL MAPS; GRID MAPS; TERRAIN MAP; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 35948985609     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.716341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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