Biologically inspired monocular vision based navigation and mapping in gps-denied environments

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  Celik, Koray ^a   Chung, Soon Jo ^a,b   Clausman, Matthew ^a   Somani, Arun K ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CAMERAS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; INFORMATION USE; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS;

ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; MONOCULAR CAMERAS; MONOCULAR VISION; NAVIGATION STRATEGIES; RANGE INFORMATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISION BASED SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPINGS;

INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77958470160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-1962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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