Intelligent Autonomous Systems: Visual Navigation Functionalities for Autonomous Mobile Vehicles

  • E. Stella
  • A. Distante
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Part of the International Series on Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering book series (ISCA, volume 18)

Abstract

The main reason behind the lack, of a real commercial development of Autonomous mobile vehicles (AMV) is due to the difficulty for these kind of systems to satisfy three important constraints: cheapness, speed and uncertainty.

Keywords

Mobile Robot Optic Flow World Model Maximum Clique Problem Relative Navigation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • E. Stella
    • 1
  • A. Distante
    • 1
  1. 1.Consiglio Nazionalle delle RicercheIstituto Elaborazione Segnali ed ImmaginiBariItaly

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