Autonomous ground vehicles-concepts and a path to the future

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue SPL CONTENT, 2012, Pages 1831-1839

  Luettel, Thorsten ^a   Himmelsbach, Michael ^a   Wuensche, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous driving; control; environment perception; light detection and ranging (LIDAR); machine vision; navigation; unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL ENGINEERING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; NAVIGATION; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; OPTICAL RADAR; POLLUTION CONTROL; VISUAL SERVOING;

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING; AUTONOMOUS GROUND VEHICLES; COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENT PERCEPTIONS; HIGHWAY CAPACITY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; ROAD ENVIRONMENT; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES;

EID: 84861188283     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2189803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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