Sensor Fusion for Ultrasonic and Laser Arrays in Mobile Robotics: A Comparative Study of Fuzzy, Dempster and Bayesian Approaches

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1682-1689

  HoseinNezhad, Reza ^a,c   Moshiri, Behzad ^a,c   Asharif, Mohammad Reza ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bayesian rule of Probability Combination; Dempster's rule of combination; Fuzzy integration; Map building; Multi sensor data fusion; Path planning (A* algorithm)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; FUZZY SETS; LASERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; PROBABILITY; ROBOTICS; TOPOLOGY; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

BAYESIAN RULE OF PROBABILITY COMBINATION; DEMPSTER'S RULE OF COMBINATION; FUZZY INTEGRATION; MAP BUILDING; MULTI-SENSOR DATA FUSION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 1542360824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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