Heuristics-Enhanced Dead-reckoning (HEDR) for accurate position tracking of tele-operated UGVs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7692, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Borenstein, Johann ^a   Borrell, Adam ^a   Miller, Russ ^a   Thomas, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; GPS denied; Gyro; Heuristic; Mobile Robot; Odometry; Tele operated; Tracking

Indexed keywords

DEAD-RECKONING; DRIFT RATES; GPS NAVIGATION; HEADING ERROR; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR TRACKING; LIVE VIDEO; NEW APPROACHES; ODOMETRY; ONBOARD CAMERA; OPERATOR FEEDBACK; POSITION TRACKING; TELEOPERATED; TELEOPERATED ROBOTS;

GYROSCOPES; MOBILE ROBOTS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 77953767826     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.850301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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