Evidential mapping for mobile robots with range sensors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1422-1429

  Yang, Tun ^a   Aitken, Victor ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant I M systems; Sensor fusion; Soft computing for intelligent I M systems

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORK; EVIDENTIAL MAPPING; NOISY SPURIOUS SENSOR; SOFT COMPUTING; SPARSE RANGE SENSORS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 33746328066     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.876399     Document Type: Article

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