This report describes a system by which an autonomous land vehicle might improve its estimate of its current position. This system selects visible landmarks from a database of knowledge about its environment and controls a camera's direction and focal length to obtain images of these landmarks. The landmarks are then located in the images using a modified version of the generalized Hough transform and their locations are used to triangulate to obtain the new estimate of vehicle position and position uncertainty.
Visual Position Determination for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
1984
66 pages
Report
No indication
English
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