Biomimetic application of desert ant visual navigation for mobile robot docking with weighted landmarks

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 174-190

  Wei, Ran ^a   Austin, David ^a,b   Mahony, Robert ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

biomimetic navigation; mobile robot docking; panoramic vision; visual landmarks

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349098645     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijista.2005.007314     Document Type: Article

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