Analysis of positioning uncertainty in reconfigurable networks of heterogeneous mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 572-579

  Mourikis, Anastasios I ^a   Roumeliotis, Stergios I ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MACHINE DESIGN; POSITION MEASUREMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; RICCATI EQUATIONS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS (CPU); COOPERATIVE LOCALIZATION; POSITIONING UNCERTAINTY; RECONFIGURABLE NETWORKS; RELATIVE POSITION MEASUREMENT GRAPH (RPMG);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042665928     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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