Distributed cooperative outdoor multirobot localization and mapping

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-39

  Madhavan, Raj ^a   Fregene, Kingsley ^b   Parker, Lynne E ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HONEYWELL   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended kalman filter; Heterogeneous sensing; Multirobot localization; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MAPPING;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; HETEROGENEOUS SENSING; MULTIROBOT LOCALIZATION; TERRAIN MAPPING;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 3142696386     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000032936.24187.41     Document Type: Article

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