Hybrid map-based navigation method for unmanned ground vehicle in urban scenario

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3662-3680

  Hu, Yuwen ^a   Gong, Jianwei ^a,b   Jiang, Yan ^a,b   Liu, Lu ^a   Xiong, Guangming ^a,b   Chen, Huiyan ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Hybrid map; Laser scanner; Markov localization; Metric map; Simultaneous localization and mapping; Topological map; Unmanned ground vehicle

Indexed keywords

HYBRID MAP; LASER SCANNER; MARKOV LOCALIZATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING; TOPOLOGICAL MAP; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

ALGORITHMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 84884799836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5083662     Document Type: Article

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