Towards mapping of cities

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4807-4813

  Pfaff, Patrick ^a   Triebel, Rudolph ^a,b   Stachniss, Cyrill ^a,b   Lamon, Pierre ^b   Burgard, Wolfram ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; MAP LEARNING; MOBILE ROBOTICS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 36349004215     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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