A robust obstacle detection method for robotic vacuum cleaners

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 587-595

  Kang, Mun Cheon ^a   Kim, Kwang Shik ^a   Noh, Dong Ki ^b   Han, Jong Woo ^b   Ko, Sung Jea ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Image processing; line detection; obstacle detection; robotic vacuum cleaner

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; ROBOTICS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VACUUM CLEANERS;

ENERGY FUNCTIONS; HOME ENVIRONMENT; IMAGE COORDINATES; LINE DETECTION; OBSTACLE DETECTION; ROBOTIC VACUUM CLEANERS; TRIANGULATION PRINCIPLES; WIDE-ANGLE VISION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84923698773     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2014.7027291     Document Type: Article

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