A people-localization method for multi-robot systems first approach for guiding-tours

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 171-182

  Martinez Garcia, Edgar ^a   Ohya, Akihisa ^a   Yuta, Shinichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed sensor data sharing; Multi people localization; Multi robot system; Vision based ranging

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; STEREO VISION;

DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR DATA FUSION; HUMAN LOCALIZATIONS; LOCALIZATION METHOD; MULTI-PEOPLE LOCALIZATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; VISION BASED;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33746856769     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/5633     Document Type: Article

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