Real-time optical SLAM-based mosaicking for unmanned underwater vehicles

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-71

  Ferreira, Fausto ^a   Veruggio, Gianmarco ^a   Caccia, Massimo ^a   Bruzzone, Gabriele ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Local mosaics; Mosaicking; Online SLAM

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; DATA ASSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FALSE POSITIVE; LOCAL MOSAICS; MOSAICKING; ONLINE SLAM; OPERATING CONDITION; REAL TIME; SEA FLOOR; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING; UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLES; VISUAL LANDMARKS; VISUAL MAP;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNMANNED VEHICLES; WATER CRAFT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84855304858     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-011-0103-x     Document Type: Article

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