Analysis of Multirobot Localization Uncertainty Propagation

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1763-1770

  Roumeliotis, Stergios I ^a   Rekleitis, Ioannis M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLES; OUTDOOR GROUND ROBOTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KALMAN FILTERING; MOTION CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0347409483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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