Human leader and robot follower team: Correcting leader's position from follower's heading

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7692, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Borenstein, Johann ^a   Thomas, David ^a   Sights, Brandon ^b   Ojeda, Lauro ^a   Bankole, Peter ^b   Fellars, Donnie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Drift; Error correction; Gyro; Leader follower; Robot; Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)

Indexed keywords

DEAD RECKONING; DRIFT ERRORS; HEADING ERROR; LEADER-FOLLOWER; MULTI-AGENT; POSITION ESTIMATION; PRECISION INSTRUMENT; PRECISION NAVIGATION; ROBOT FOLLOWER; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

ERRORS; GROUND VEHICLES; GYROSCOPES; NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBOTS;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953742823     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.850422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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