CBUG: A quadratically competitive mobile robot navigation algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1451-1457

  Gabriely, Yoav ^a   Rimon, Elon ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Competitive navigation; Mobile robot online navigation; Tactile based navigation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

COMPETITIVE NAVIGATION; MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATIONS; NAVIGATION TASKS; OFFLINE; ONLINE PERFORMANCES; ONLINE TASKS; PATH LENGTHS; PATH STABILITIES; RELATIVE PERFORMANCES; SPEED-UP; TACTILE-BASED NAVIGATION;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 58249140908     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.2006237     Document Type: Article

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