Real-time localisation of a low-cost mobile robot with poor ultrasonic data

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 925-934

  Hoppenot, P ^a   Colle, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EVRY   (France)

Author keywords

Least squares algorithm; Localisation errors; Localisation estimation; Medical robotics; Mobile robots; Range data; Ultrasonic transducers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR CORRECTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

MEDICAL ROBOTICS; ODOMETRY; REAL TIME LOCALIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032131633     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00051-3     Document Type: Article

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