Robust vision-based underwater homing using self-similar landmarks

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 6-7, 2008, Pages 360-377

  Negre, Amaury ^a   Pradalier, Cédric ^b   Dunbabin, Matthew ^b  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCKING; NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SUBMERSIBLES; TARGETS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUVS); CONTROLLER SYSTEMS; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PAPER ADDRESSES; POSE-ESTIMATION; PROCESSING POWER; SELF SIMILAR; SINGLE CAMERAS; TARGET DESIGNS; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TARGET RECOGNITION; TARGET SEGMENTATION; UNDERWATER NAVIGATION; UNDERWATER TARGETS; VISION-BASED;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 47649093800     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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