Using covariance intersection for SLAM

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-20

  Julier, Simon J ^a   Uhlmann, Jeffrey K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance intersection; Linearization errors; Mapping and localisation; Scalability; Unmodelled correlations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LINEARIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COVARIANCE INTERSECTION (CI); LINEARIZATION ERRORS; LOCALISATION; SCALABILITY; UNMODELLED CORRELATIONS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 33751291152     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.06.011     Document Type: Article

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