Active markov localization for mobile robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 195-207

  Fox, Dieter ^a,b   Burgard, Wolfram ^a   Thrun, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous service robots; Robot position estimation

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

ACTIVE MARKOV LOCALIZATION; POSITION ESTIMATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0042544062     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00049-9     Document Type: Article

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