Multisensor data fusion for underwater navigation

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 97-108

  Majumder, Somajyoti ^a,b   Scheding, Steve ^a   Durrant Whyte, Hugh F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Sensor fusion; Underwater navigation

Indexed keywords

UNDERWATER NAVIGATION;

NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0035978724     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(00)00126-3     Document Type: Article

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