Qualitative vision-based path following

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 749-754

  Chen, Zhichao ^a   Birchfield, Stanley T ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Feature tracking; Mobile robot navigation; Vision based navigation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; FEATURE POINT; FEATURE TRACKING; FUNDAMENTAL MATRIX; GROUND PLANES; HOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE JACOBIAN; LENS DISTORTION; MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; NOVEL CONCEPT; ODOMETRY; OMNIDIRECTIONAL CAMERAS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PATH FOLLOWING; ROUGH TERRAINS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SINGLE CONTROLLERS; VISION BASED; VISION-BASED NAVIGATION;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 67649246886     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2017140     Document Type: Article

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