Robust appearance based visual route following for navigation in large-scale outdoor environments

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 331-356

  Zhang, Alan M ^a   Kleeman, Lindsay ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Appearance based; Mobile robot; Navigation; Outdoor; Panoramic vision; Replay; Route following; Route repeat

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

APPEARANCE-BASED; MOBILE ROBOT; OUTDOOR; PANORAMIC VISION; REPLAY; ROUTE FOLLOWING; ROUTE REPEAT;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 59949103575     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364908098412     Document Type: Article

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