An aerial-ground robotic system for navigation and obstacle mapping in large outdoor areas

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1247-1267

  Garzón, Mario ^a   Valente, João ^a   Zapata, David ^a   Barrientos, Antonio ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Collaborative robotics; Cooperative perception; Obstacle avoidance; Outdoor mapping; UAV; UGV

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; COOPERATIVE PERCEPTION; MAPPING APPLICATIONS; OUTDOOR MAPPING; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS; SENSOR INFORMATIONS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; UGV;

CAMERAS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; EXPERIMENTS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84872767568     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130101247     Document Type: Article

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