Autonomous off-road navigation with end-to-end learning for the LAGR program

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-25

  Bajracharya, Max ^a   Howard, Andrew ^a   Matthies, Larry H ^a   Tang, Benyang ^a   Turmon, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS;

COMPLEX TERRAINS; FAR FIELDS; FIELD TESTS; FULLY INTEGRATED; GROUND ROBOTS; IMAGE-BASED; ROAD ENVIRONMENTS; STEREO CAMERAS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATIONS; TERRAIN CLASSIFIERS; VARYING LIGHTINGS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 62449213780     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20269     Document Type: Article

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