A biologically inspired intelligent environment architecture for mobile robot navigation

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 138-156

  Cheng, Yongqiang ^a   Jiang, Ping ^a   Hu, Yim Fun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; Distributed wireless vision sensors; Intelligent environment; Mosaic eye; Robot navigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861411807     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2012.046561     Document Type: Review

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