Affordable SLAM through the co-design of hardware and methodology

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5395-5401

  Magnenat, Stéphane ^a   Longchamp, Valentin ^a   Bonani, Michael ^a   Rétornaz, Philippe ^a   Germano, Paolo ^a   Bleuler, Hannes ^a   Mondada, Francesco ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC LEVELS; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; CO-DESIGNS; CONTACT LESS; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; FAST-SLAM; INFRARED DISTANCE SENSORS; MINIATURE ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM-BASED; PROCESSING POWER; PROMINENT FEATURES; REAL TIME; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; ROBUST ALGORITHM; ROTATING PLATFORM; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING; SLAM ALGORITHM; SPEED PROCESSORS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTS; ROTATION; SCANNING; SENSORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955826107     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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