An effective exploration approach to simultaneous mapping and surface material-type identification of complex three-dimensional environments

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 26, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 915-933

  Paul, Gavin ^a   Liu, Dikai ^a   Kirchner, Nathan ^a   Dissanayake, Gamini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; GEOMETRIC MAPPING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MULTI OBJECTIVE; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SIX-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; SURFACE GEOMETRIES; SURFACE INSPECTION; SURFACE MATERIALS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) ENVIRONMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INFORMATION THEORY; MAPPING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SURFACES;

EID: 70449380791     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20317     Document Type: Article

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