The role of homing in visual topological navigation

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 567-572

  Liu, Ming ^a   Pradalier, Cedric ^a   Pomerleau, Francois ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOVING PEOPLES; ODOMETRY; REAL APPLICATIONS; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DATA; VISUAL HOMING;

ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84872311523     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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