A fast and robust obstacle detection algorithm for off-road autonomous mobile robots

Jiqiren/Robot

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Tingbo ^a   Wu, Tao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robot; Obstacle detection; Region growing; Stereo vision

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; DETECTION METHODS; OBSTACLE DETECTION; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; REGION GROWING; RUNTIMES;

ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; REDUNDANCY; ROADS AND STREETS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STEREO VISION;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 79958220816     PISSN: 10020446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1218.2011.00287     Document Type: Article

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