Integrating active localization into high-level robot control systems

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 205-220

  Beetz, Michael ^a   Burgard, Wolfram ^a   Fox, Dieter ^a   Cremers, Armin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous service robots; High level robot control; Robot position estimation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; MOTION CONTROL; POSITION CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

HIGH-LEVEL ROBOT CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOT POSITION ESTIMATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032116484     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00009-8     Document Type: Article

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