Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4925-4930

  Fox, Charles ^a   Evans, Mat ^a   Pearson, Martin ^b   Prescott, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROBOTICS LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS;

GRID-BASED; ROBOTIC MAPS; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALISATION AND MAPPINGS; STRAIGHT EDGE; TOUCH SENSORS; VISUAL SENSOR;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84864458723     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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