Decentralized Bayesian algorithms for active sensor networks

Information Fusion

Volumn 7, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 418-433

  Makarenko, Alexei ^a   Durrant Whyte, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active sensor networks; Decentralized decision making; Decentralized information fusion; Mobile robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

ACTIVE SENSOR NETWORKS; DECENTRALIZED DECISION MAKING; DECENTRALIZED INFORMATION FUSION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33750944001     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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