Methods and experiments for hazardous area activities using a multi-robot system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3559-3564

  Schneider, Frank E ^a   Wildermuth, Dennis ^a   Moors, Mark ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hazardous areas; Multi robot; Relative localisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERING; LASER PULSES; MAPPING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SCANNING; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; HAZARDOUS AREA; MULTI ROBOT; RELATIVE LOCALIZATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042553481     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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