RoadCompass: Following rural roads with vision + ladar using vanishing point tracking

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 205-229

  Rasmussen, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Mobile robots; Road following; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; TESTING; VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING; CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; DARPA GRAND CHALLENGE; FAILURE CONDITIONS; FULL CONTROL; GABOR WAVELETS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROAD-FOLLOWING; STATE-BASED; STEERING CONTROL; SUN GLARE; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; VANISHING POINT; WAYPOINTS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 52949144244     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-008-9091-x     Document Type: Article

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