Robotics-based location sensing using wireless Ethernet

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 227-238

  Ladd, Andrew M ^a   Bekris, Kostas E ^a   Rudys, Algis ^a   Marceau, Guillaume ^b   Kavraki, Lydia E ^a   Wallach, Dan S ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; Localization; Mobile systems; Probabilistic analysis; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TRACKING (POSITION);

ROBOTICS-BASED LOCATION SENSING; WIRELESS ETHERNET;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 0036953792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/570673.570674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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