An autonomous mobile robotics testbed: Construction, validation, and experiments

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 757-766

  Riggs, Travis A ^a   Inanc, Tamer ^a   Zhang, Weizhong ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Mobile robots; Multi camera color consistency; Path planning; Testbed

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COLOR CONSISTENCY; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MULTI-CAMERAS; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; PATH-PLANNING; PATTERN DESIGNS; RADIAL LENS DISTORTION; TRAJECTORY GENERATION; VISION SYSTEMS;

CAMERAS; COLOR; COLOR VISION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 77951877834     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2009.2027429     Document Type: Article

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