Ground Plane Identification Using LIDAR in Forested

To operate autonomously in forested environments, unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) must be able to identify the load-bearing surface of the terrain (i.e. the ground). This paper presents a novel two-stage approach for identifying ground points from 3-D point clouds sensed using LIDAR. The first stage...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McDaniel, Matt W., Nishihata, Takayuki, Brooks, Christopher A., Iagnemma, Karl
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61414