A stereo vision based mapping algorithm for detecting inclines, drop-offs, and obstacles for safe local navigation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1646-1653

  Murarka, Aniket ^a   Kuipers, Benjamin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D GRID; 3D MODELS; GRID MAP; GROUND TRUTH DATA; LOCAL NAVIGATION; LOCAL SAFETY; MAPPING ALGORITHMS; PLANE FITTING; POINT CLOUD; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; RANGE DATA; REAL TIME STEREO; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VISION BASED; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; STEREO VISION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 76249127956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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