Cooperative exploration by multi-robots without global localization

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-138

  Chao Xia, Shi ^a,b   Bing Rong, Hong ^a,b   Yan Qng, Wang ^a,b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooperative exploration; Map merging; Scale invariant features; Topological map

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE EXPLORATION; COORDINATED EXPLORATION; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS; GLOBAL LOCALIZATION; INVARIANT FEATURES; MAP MERGING; MOBILE ROBOTICS; MULTI-ROBOTS; REFERENCE FRAMES; TOPOLOGICAL MAPS; UNKNO WN ENVIRONMENTS;

MAPS; MERGING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY;

NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

EID: 45449109785     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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