Outdoor downward-facing optical flow odometry with commodity sensors

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 62, Issue , 2010, Pages 183-193

  Dille, Michael ^a   Grocholsky, Ben ^a   Singh, Sanjiv ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; OPTICAL FLOWS;

FIELD ROBOTICS; HIGH-SLIP ENVIRONMENTS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; OPTICAL FLOW ODOMETRY; OPTICAL MOUSE SENSORS; VEHICLE VELOCITY; VISUAL ODOMETRY; WHEEL ODOMETRY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84929455322     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13408-1_17     Document Type: Article

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