Autonomous planetary exploration using lidar data

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3025-3030

  Rekleitis, Ioannis ^a   Bedwani, Jean Luc ^b   Dupuis, Erick ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY; HUMAN OPERATOR; LIDAR DATA; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; LONG RANGE; MINIMAL INTERACTIONS; PATH-PLANNING; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; RANGE SENSORS; REMOTE LOCATION; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; TRIANGULAR MESHES;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; OPTICAL RADAR;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 70350349728     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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