Autonomous exploration using rapid perception of low-resolution image information

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 115-128

  Murali, Vidya N ^a   Birchfield, Stanley T ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous exploration; Computer vision; Low resolution vision

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS EXPLORATION; COMBINED SYSTEM; CONCURRENT TASKS; FRAMES PER SECONDS; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; ROBOT EXPLORATION; TWO-STATE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

COMPUTER VISION; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION THEORY; MOBILE ROBOTS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 84862128551     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-011-9262-z     Document Type: Article

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