Cooperative visual mapping in a heterogeneous team of mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1491-1496

  Hofmeister, Marius ^a   Kronfeld, Marcel ^a   Zell, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION POWER; IMAGE-BASED; LINE-OF-SIGHT; MULTIROBOTS; ROBOT TEAMS; VISUAL MAPPING;

MAPPING; ROBOTICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84871674701     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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