COM-based software architecture for multisensor fusion system

Information Fusion

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 261-270

  Wang, Jun ^a   Jianbo, Su ^a   Yugeng, Xi ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

COM; Component based software engineering (CBSE); Multisensor fusion system; Three tier architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035624595     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-2535(01)00042-2     Document Type: Article

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