Targeted driving using visual tracking on Mars: From research to flight

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-263

  Kim, Won S ^a   Nesnas, Issa A ^a   Bajracharya, Max ^a   Madison, Richard ^b   Ansar, Adnan I ^a   Steele, Robert D ^a   Biesiadecki, Jeffrey J ^a   Ali, Khaled S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; EXECUTION TIME; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; LARGE IMAGES; MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSIONS; NATURAL ROCKS; NORMALIZED CROSS-CORRELATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PLANETARY ROVERS; ROCK BOUNDARIES; SHADOWED REGIONS; STEP SIZE; TARGET POSITION; TEMPLATE IMAGES; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL TARGET TRACKING; VISUAL TRACKING;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PLANETARY LANDERS; TARGETS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 67649209159     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20283     Document Type: Article

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