Learning predictive terrain models for legged robot locomotion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3545-3552

  Plagemann, Christian ^a   Mischke, Sebastian ^a   Prentice, Sam ^b   Kersting, Kristian ^c   Roy, Nicholas ^b   Burgard, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FRAUNHOFER IAIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE INFERENCE; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; LASER RANGE FINDERS; LEGGED ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNERS; NONSTATIONARY GAUSSIAN PROCESS; PROBABILISTIC TECHNIQUE; QUADRUPED ROBOTS; SPARSE APPROXIMATIONS; SPECIFIC COST; TERRAIN HEIGHT; TERRAIN MODEL;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LOCATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 69549138695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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