Path planning for autonomous vehicles in unknown semi-structured environments

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 485-501

  Dolgov, Dmitri ^a   Thrun, Sebastian ^b   Montemerlo, Michael ^b   Diebel, James ^b  

^a America   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous driving; Path planning

Indexed keywords

3-D KINEMATICS; AUTONOMOUS DRIVING; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; PARKING LOTS; PATH-PLANNING; PATH-PLANNING ALGORITHM; PATH-PLANNING TASKS; RE-PLANNING; ROBOTIC VEHICLES; SECOND PHASE; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SEMI-STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS; STATE SPACE; TWO PHASIS;

ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; PLANNING; VEHICLES;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77951113447     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364909359210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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