Development of intelligent vehicle for waypoints navigation

This paper describes the development of an intelligent vehicle for waypoints navigation on an outdoor street. To avoid collision on a crowded or congested street, we employed an omni-directional camera and laser rangefinder. A Kalman filter-based sensor fusion can achieve collision avoidance at real-time processing. The effectiveness of the proposed method was demonstrated by the developed prototype intelligent wheel chair.

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