Fusing range and intensity images for mobile robot localization

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 76-84

  Neira, José ^a   Tardós, Juan D ^a   Horn, Joachim ^b   Schmidt, Günther ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Map based localization; Mobile robots; Range finder; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; INTEGRATION; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; POSITION CONTROL; PROBABILITY; RANGE FINDERS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

MAP-BASED LOCALIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0033079053     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.744604     Document Type: Article

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