Terrain surface classification with a control mode update rule using a 2D laser stripe-based structured light sensor

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 954-965

  Lu, Liang ^a   Ordonez, Camilo ^b   Collins Jr , Emmanuel G ^b   Coyle, Eric ^b   Palejiya, Dushyant ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Terrain classification; Terrain dependent control

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS GROUND VEHICLES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; CONTROL MODES; DIFFERENT TERRAINS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; MINIMAL EFFECTS; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; RANGE DATA; SPATIAL DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STRUCTURED-LIGHT SENSORS; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION; TERRAIN SURFACES; TEXTURE FEATURES; VISION BASED; VISION SYSTEMS; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; GROUND VEHICLES; LANDFORMS; LASER SAFETY; LIGHTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSORS; TEXTURES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 80052831388     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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