Path planning for planetary exploration

Proceedings of the 5th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 61-68

  Rekleitis, Ioannis ^a   Bedwani, Jean Luc ^b   Dupuis, Erick ^b   Allard, Pierre ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY; COMPUTER AND ROBOT VISION; PATH PLANNING; PLANETARY EXPLORATIONS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER VISION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAPS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 52049095938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2008.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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