Combining invariant features and the ALV homing method for autonomous robot navigation based on panoramas

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 625-649

  Ramisa, Arnau ^a   Goldhoorn, Alex ^a   Aldavert, David ^b   Toledo, Ricardo ^b   De Mantaras, Ramon Lopez ^a  

^a ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired methods; Local features; Robot navigation; Visual homing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LANDMARK; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT NAVIGATION; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED METHODS; DATA SETS; INVARIANT FEATURES; LOCAL FEATURE; LOCAL NAVIGATION; PANORAMIC IMAGES; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; ROBOT NAVIGATION; VISUAL HOMING;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 84855450645     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-011-9552-x     Document Type: Article

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