Topological simultaneous localization and mapping: A survey

Robotica

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 803-821

  Boal, Jaime ^a   Sánchez Miralles, Álvaro ^a   Arranz, Álvaro ^a  

^a ICAI School of Engineering   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feature detection; Mobile robots; Robot localization; SLAM; Topological modeling of robots

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAPPING; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY;

ACCURATE LOCATION; FEATURE DETECTION; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING; SLAM; TOPOLOGICAL MODELS; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84927571522     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574713001070     Document Type: Article

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