Detecting obstacles and drop-offs using stereo and motion cues for safe local motion

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 702-708

  Murarka, Aniket ^a   Sridharan, Mohan ^b   Kuipers, Benjamin ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR SEGMENTATION; DETECTION SCHEME; LOCAL CORRELATIONS; LOCAL MOTIONS; MOTION CUES; STEREO METHOD; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN SETTINGS; VISUAL MOTION;

DROPS; ERROR DETECTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 69549097734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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