Leveraging experience for large-scale LIDAR localisation in changing cities

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2015-June, Issue June, 2015, Pages 1684-1691

  Maddern, Will ^a   Pascoe, Geoffrey ^a   Newman, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; COST FUNCTIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

3-D LIDARS; AUTOMATED DRIVING; GPU RENDERING; LIDAR DATA; LOCALISATION; NORMAL DRIVING; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; REAL TIME;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84938267047     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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