A complementary vision strategy for autonomous robots in underground terrains using SRM and entropy models

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 10, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-13

  Isafiade, Omowunmi ^a   Osunmakinde, Isaac ^b   Bagula, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

3D kinect sensors; Autonomous robots; Drivable region detection; Entropy; SRM; Underground terrains

Indexed keywords

KINECT SENSORS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RED , GREEN AND BLUES; REGION DETECTION; SRM; STATISTICAL REGION MERGING; UNDERGROUND TERRAINS;

ROBOTS; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENTROPY;

EID: 84885087332     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/56758     Document Type: Article

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