Fully autonomous focused exploration for robotic environmental monitoring

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2658-2664

  Hitz, Gregory ^a   Gotovos, Alkis ^a   Pomerleau, Franccois ^a   Garneau, Marie Éve ^b   Pradalier, Cédric ^c   Krause, Andreas ^a   Siegwart, Roland Y ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GeorgiaTech Lorraine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLES;

ADAPTIVE METHODS; AQUATIC MONITORING; AUTONOMOUS SURFACE VESSELS; CRITICAL BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PREDICTION ERRORS; RECEDING HORIZON;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84929180186     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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