Large scale multiple robot visual mapping with heterogeneous landmarks in semi-structured terrain

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 654-674

  Vidal Calleja, Teresa A ^a   Berger, Cyrille ^b,c   Solà, Joan ^b,c   Lacroix, Simon ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b LAAS CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Multi robots cooperation; Visual SLAM

Indexed keywords

BEARING-ONLY; COOPERATIVE LOCALIZATION; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GROUND ROVERS; INVERSE-DEPTH; LINE SEGMENT; MONOCULAR CAMERAS; MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTS; MULTIPLE ROBOT; MULTIROBOTS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SLAM ALGORITHM; VISUAL LANDMARKS; VISUAL MAPPING; VISUAL SLAM;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 79960165850     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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