The learning and use of traversability affordance using range images on a mobile robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1721-1726

  Uǧur, Emre ^a   Dogar, Mehmet R ^a   Çakmak, Maya ^a   Şahin, Erol ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT CONTROL; LASER SCANNERS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 36348986666     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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