On the robustness of visual homing under landmark uncertainty

Intelligent Autonomous Systems 10, IAS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 278-287

  Schroeter, Derik ^a   Newman, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Omnivision; Topological navigation; Visual homing

Indexed keywords

BEARING-ONLY; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; GRADIENT DESCENT; LANDMARK-BASED NAVIGATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VISION; OMNIVISION; VECTOR FIELDS; VISUAL HOMING; VISUAL LANDMARKS;

EID: 84871762374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-887-8-278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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