A 3D pose estimator for the visually impaired

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2716-2723

  Hesch, Joel A ^a   Mirzaei, Faraz M ^a   Mariottini, Gian Luca ^a   Roumeliotis, Stergios I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D LASER SCANNERS; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LASER SCANNER; LIE DERIVATIVE; LINEAR SEGMENTS; REAL TIME; SCAN DATA; SENSING PLATFORMS; SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; STRUCTURAL PLANES; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 76249095616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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