Qualitative robot localisation using information from cast shadows

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 220-225

  Santos, Paulo ^a   Dee, Hannah M ^b   Fenelon, Valquiria ^a  

^a CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO DA FEI   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAST SHADOW; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS; HUMAN PERCEPTUAL SYSTEM; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS; REGION-BASED; ROBOT LOCALISATION;

COMPUTER VISION; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70350362730     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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