Global localization of multirobot formations using ceiling vision SLAM strategy

Mechatronics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 617-628

  Chen, Haoyao ^a   Sun, Dong ^a   Yang, Jie ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Ceiling vision SLAM; Global localization; Multirobot formation

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CEILINGS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

CEILING VISION SLAM; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; FEATURE BASED MATCHING; GLOBAL LOCALIZATION; GLOBAL LOCALIZATION PROBLEMS; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; MONOCULAR CAMERAS; MULTI-ROBOT FORMATION;

SLAM ROBOTICS;

EID: 67349121251     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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