Online Aerial Terrain Mapping for Ground Robot Navigation

This work presents a collaborative unmanned aerial and ground vehicle system which utilizes the aerial vehicle’s overhead view to inform the ground vehicle’s path planning in real time. The aerial vehicle acquires imagery which is assembled into a orthomosaic and then classified. These terrain class...

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Main Authors: John Peterson, Haseeb Chaudhry, Karim Abdelatty, John Bird, Kevin Kochersberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-02-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/2/630