Occupancy grid mapping: An empirical evaluation

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Collins, Thomas ^a   Collins, J J ^a   Ryan, Conor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Mapping; Modeling and simulation; Occupancy grid; Robotics

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MAPS; ROBOTICS;

CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; MACHINE LEARNING; MAPPING; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MODELING AND SIMULATION; OCCUPANCY GRID; OCCUPANCY GRIDS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROBOTIC MAPPING; TEST DATA;

ROBOTS;

EID: 50249127229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433772     Document Type: Conference Paper

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