Qualitative spatial reasoning for topological map learning

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 207-246

  Wallgrün, Jan Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constraint satisfaction; Direction relations; Multi hypothesis tracking; Planarity; Qualitative spatial reasoning; Robot navigation; Spatial representation; Topological maps; Voronoi graphs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960255096     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860903540906     Document Type: Article

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