Terrain surface classification for autonomous ground vehicles using a 2D laser stripe-based structured light sensor

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2174-2181

  Lu, Liang ^a   Ordonez, Camilo ^a   Collins Jr , Emmanuel G ^a   DuPont, Edmond M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS GROUND VEHICLES; COLOR CHANGES; GRAY LEVELS; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; LASER STRIPES; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY RESPONSE; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STAND -ALONE; STRUCTURED-LIGHT SENSORS; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION; TERRAIN SURFACES; TRAVERSABILITY; VISION BASED;

CAMERAS; COLOR; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LANDFORMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSORS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 76249134264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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