An Overview of Vision-Based Navigation for Autonomous Land Vehicles 1986.

Abstract

This report describes research performed during the first two years on the project Vision-Based Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles being conducted under DARPA support. The report contains discussion of four main topics: (1) Development of a vision system for autonomous navigation of roads and road network. (2) Support of Martin Marietta Aerospace, Denver, the integrating contractor on DARPA's ALV program. (3) Experimentation with the vision system developed at Maryland on the Martin Marietta ALV, and (4) Development and implementation of parallel algorithms for visual navigation on the parallel computers developed under the DARPA Strategic Computing Program--specifically, the WARP systolic array processor, the Butterfly, and the Connection Machine. Keywords: Vision-based navigation, and Parallel algorithms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA188186

Entities

People

  • Daniel Dementhon
  • Larry S. Davis
  • Sharat Chandran
  • Suresh Gajulapalli
  • Sven J. Dickenson

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Computer Vision
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Databases
  • Image Processing
  • Motion Planning
  • Navigation
  • Operating Systems
  • Range Finding
  • Robot Navigation
  • Robots
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trees (Data Structures)
  • Two Dimensional
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Space