Real-time single-workstation obstacle avoidance using only wide-field flow divergence

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 1996, Pages 323-330

  Camus, Ted ^a   Coombs, David ^a   Herman, Martin ^a   Hong, Tsai Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; FLOW FIELDS; OPTICAL FLOWS;

COLLISION BEHAVIOR; COLLISION DETECTION; DENSE OPTICAL FLOW; ENTIRE SYSTEM; MINIMAL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEM; REAL-TIME ROBOTS; STEERING CONTROL;

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS;

EID: 79952429608     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.1996.546964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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