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Journal of Robotics
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 548042, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/548042
Research Article

Monocular Vision-Based Robot Localization and Target Tracking

Bing-Fei Wu, Wang-Chuan Lu, and Cheng-Lung Jen

Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

Received 14 June 2011; Revised 15 October 2011; Accepted 16 October 2011

Academic Editor: Huosheng Hu

Copyright © 2011 Bing-Fei Wu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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