A practical approach to robotic design for the DARPA Urban Challenge

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 528-566

  Patz, Benjamin J ^a   Papelis, Yiannis ^b   Pillat, Remo ^c   Stein, Gary ^c   Harper, Don ^c  

^a Coleman Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER VISION; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; RADAR; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; ROBUST CONTROL; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

LASER SCANNERS; ROBOT VISION; SENSOR DATA; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 50449094829     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20251     Document Type: Article

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