BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2000-364
ENTRY:: March 30, 2000
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Landmarks for absolute localization
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Howell, Jon
AUTHOR:: Kotay, Keith
DATE:: March 2000
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: Compressed Postscript at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2000-364.ps.Z
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2000-364.pdf
ABSTRACT:: 
For certain experiments in mobile robotics, it is convenient to eliminate
positional estimation error in the interest of analyzing other parts of
the experiment. We designed and implemented a simple, accurate scheme
for encoding and recovering absolute position information. The encoding
is a two-dimensional image printed on the plane of the floor, and the
absolute position information is recovered using a downward-looking
video camera mounted on a mobile robot.
NOTE:: 
This document describes work done in the Dartmouth Robotics Laboratory
in April of 1997 and August of 1999. It was previously ``published'' as
a web page, but we thought it would make sense to document it more
permanently.
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2000-364