Treemap: An O(log n) algorithm for indoor simultaneous localization and mapping

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 103-122

  Frese, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hierarchical decomposition; Information matrix; Mobile robots; SLAM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

COMPUTATION TIME; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITION; INFORMATION MATRIX; SLAM;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 33748515877     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-006-9043-2     Document Type: Article

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