An appearance-based visual compass for mobile robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 536-545

  Sturm, J ^a   Visser, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active vision; Appearance based; Machine learning; Mobile robot localization

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT LEARNING;

ACTIVE VISION; APPEARANCE-BASED; MACHINE LEARNING; MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SONY AIBO; STATISTICAL FEATURES; VISUAL APPEARANCES; VISUAL COMPASS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 63149087213     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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