Stereo vision and terrain modeling for quadruped robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1557-1564

  Zico Kolter, J ^a   Kim, Youngjun ^b   Ng, Andrew Y ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; LANDFORMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; STEREO VISION; VISUAL SERVOING;

FILLING IN; KEY ELEMENTS; LEGGED ROBOTS; QUADRUPED ROBOTS; REAL WORLD DOMAIN; RUGGED TERRAIN; TERRAIN MODELING; VISION SYSTEMS;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 85087086044     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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