Combined visual odometry and visual compass for off-road mobile robots localization

Robotica

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 865-878

  Gonzalez, Ramon ^a   Rodriguez, Francisco ^a   Guzman, Jose Luis ^a   Pradalier, Cedric ^b   Siegwart, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Mobile robots; Navigation; Robot localization; Service robots

Indexed keywords

CONSECUTIVE IMAGES; MATCHING PROCESS; MONOCULAR CAMERAS; ONE CAMERA; ORIENTATION ESTIMATION; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SERVICE ROBOTS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL COMPASS; VISUAL ODOMETRY; WORK-RELATED;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; ESTIMATION; NAVIGATION; ROADS AND STREETS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84865743705     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026357471100110X     Document Type: Article

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