Sensor fusion for mobile robot navigation

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 108-119

  Kam, Moshe ^a   Zhu, Xiaoxun ^a   Kalata, Paul ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERING; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROXIMITY SENSORS; STATE ESTIMATION;

HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURES; ROBOT NAVIGATION; VEHICLE DYNAMICS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0030785214     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.1997.554212     Document Type: Article

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