A comparison of efficient global image features for localizing small mobile robots

Joint 41st International Symposium on Robotics and 6th German Conference on Robotics 2010, ISR/ROBOTIK 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 143-150

  Hofmeister, Marius ^a   Vorst, Philipp ^a   Zell, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; GLOBAL FEATURE; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; IMAGE FEATURES; LOW RESOLUTION; PROCESSING CAPABILITY; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SELF-LOCALIZATION;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; ROBOTICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84871696028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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