Learning traversability models for autonomous mobile vehicles

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-86

  Shneier, Michael ^a   Chang, Tommy ^a   Hong, Tsai ^a   Shackleford, Will ^a   Bostelman, Roger ^a   Albus, James S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Color models; Learning; Mobile robotics; Range; Texture; Traversability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; OPTICAL RADAR;

COLOR MODELS; TRAVERSABILITY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 37449025832     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-007-9063-6     Document Type: Article

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