Mobile robot self-localization using occupancy histograms and a mixture of Gaussian location hypotheses

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 117-129

  Duckett, Tom ^a   Nehmzow, Ulrich ^b,c  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; STATE ESTIMATION;

GAUSSIAN LOCATION HYPOTHESES; MOBILE ROBOT SELF-LOCALIZATION; OCCUPANCY HISTOGRAMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034831830     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(00)00116-0     Document Type: Article

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