Towards a generic UGV autopilot

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7332, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Moore, Kevin L ^a   Whitehorn, Mark ^a   Weinstein, Alejandro J ^a   Xia, Junjun ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto pilot; Autonomy; Pose estimation

Indexed keywords

AUTO-PILOT; AUTONOMY; AVOIDING OBSTACLE; COMMUNICATION HARDWARE; CONTROL ACTIONS; DRIVE-BY-WIRE; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR; FINITE STATE MACHINES; GRAND CHALLENGE; LONG-TERM GOALS; OPERATOR CONTROL UNITS; POSE ESTIMATION; SCANNING LASERS; SONAR RANGING; STEREO CAMERAS; STEREO-IMAGE; SYSTEM USE; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES; WAYPOINTS;

CONTROL THEORY; ESTIMATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; JITTER; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SENSORS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WIRE;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 69949175186     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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