Mobile Robots for Earth Exploration: Applications, Technologies and Image Processing Techniques for Navigation
Filippo Bonaccorso, Carmelo Donato Melita, Giovanni Muscato, Michele Prestifilippo · ASME Press eBooks · 2015
This chapter gives an overview of the applications of mobile ground robots for earth exploration. An introduction of the main examples and projects is given, followed by a short survey on the necessary related technologies. The chapter concludes with an example of an image processing algorithm adopted for autonomous navigation in complex outdoor environments.