Sensor fusion for localization using possibility theory

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 773-782

  Sossai, Claudio ^a   Bison, Paolo ^a   Chemello, Gaetano ^a   Trainito, Gaetano ^a  

^a Istituto di Ingeneria Biomedica del CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mobile robots; reasoning; Possibility theory; Sensor fusion; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

COOPERATING ROBOTS; POSSIBILITY THEORY; TOPOLOGICAL MAP;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032631905     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(99)00027-1     Document Type: Article

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