Robotics-assisted demining with Gryphon

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1763-1786

  Freese, Marc ^a   Matsuzawa, Toshiaki ^a   Oishi, Yasuhiro ^a   Debenest, Paulo ^a   Takita, Kensuke ^a   Fukushima, Edwardo F ^a   Hirose, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demining; Imaging; Marking; Mobile manipulator; Stereo vision

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS; RISK ANALYSIS; STEREO VISION;

DEMINING; GRYPHON; MARKING PLATES; MOBILE MANIPULATORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 36148952550     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855307782506147     Document Type: Article

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