Necessary and sufficient conditions for localization of multiple robot platforms

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2 A, Issue , 2004, Pages 13-22

  Zhang, Fan ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Pereira, Guilherme A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; POSITION CONTROL; SENSORS;

HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTS; HETEROGENEOUS SENSORS; KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL LINKAGE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 14044277656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2004-57010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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