Location estimation for indoor autonomous vehicle navigation by omni-directional vision using circular landmarks on ceilings

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 546-555

  Wu, Chih Jen ^a   Tsai, Wen Hsiang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autonomous land vehicle; Ceiling; Circular shaped landmark; Indoor environment; Location estimation; Omni directional camera; Omni directional image; Omni directional vision

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CEILINGS; ESTIMATION; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS LAND VEHICLE; CIRCULAR-SHAPED LANDMARK; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOCATION ESTIMATION; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL CAMERA; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL IMAGE; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VISION;

VEHICLES;

EID: 63149179151     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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