One crucial aspect for autonomous vehicle navigation is to have the capability of detecting the surrounding terrain in a very fast and robust manner. Recently developed 3D Time-of-Flight cameras have an enormous potential for mobile robotic applications in particular for mapping and navigation tasks. This book presents the implementation of a Swiss Ranger SR3000 TOF camera with a real time algorithm developed in LabVIEW, which was incorporated into the university Intelligent Ground Vehicle cognition software. The algorithm utilizes a new approach of programming with Dynamic Link Library nodes...