Development of a visual odometry system for a wheeled robot on loose soil using a telecentric camera

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 1149-1167

  Nagatani, Keiji ^a   Ikeda, Ayako ^b   Ishigami, Genya ^c   Yoshida, Kazuya ^a   Nagai, Isaku ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RICOH COMPANY LTD   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mobile robot positioning; Telecentric camera; Visual odometry

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL CAMERA; FIELD OF VIEWS; LOOSE SOILS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NONCONTACT METHODS; ODOMETRY; PERFORMANCE TESTS; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; VIEWING AREA; VISUAL ODOMETRY; WHEELED ROBOT;

EXPERIMENTS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MOBILE ROBOTS; SOILS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CAMERAS;

EID: 77953204740     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/016918610X501282     Document Type: Article

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