Cooperative, distributed localization in multi-robot systems: A minimum-entropy approach

Proceedings - DIS 2006: IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems - Collective Intelligence and Its Applications

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 25-30

  Caglioti, Vincenzo ^a   Citterio, Augusto ^a   Fossati, Andrea ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS (EKF); MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33845434869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DIS.2006.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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