Practical visual odometry for car-like vehicles

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3551-3557

  Nourani Vatani, Navid ^a,b   Roberts, Jonathan ^a   Srinivasan, Mandiam V ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAR-LIKE VEHICLES; INDUSTRIAL TESTS; MOTION CONSTRAINTS; NONHOLONOMICS; ODOMETRY; ODOMETRY CALCULATION; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; SINGLE CAMERAS; VISUAL ODOMETRY; WHEEL ENCODERS;

ROBOTICS;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 70350349870     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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