Improving the robustness properties of robot localization procedures with respect to environment features uncertainties

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1451-1458

  Ippoliti, G ^a   Jetto, L ^a   La Manna, A ^a   Longhi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kaiman filtering; Localization; Mobile robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GYROSCOPES; KALMAN FILTERING; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SONAR;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERING (EKF); FEATURE ESTIMATION; ROBOT LOCALIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846140178     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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