Posture estimation and tracking of an autonomous mobile robot using a laser scanner with retro-reflectors

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Transactions of the Chinese Institute of Engineers,Series A/Chung-kuo Kung Ch'eng Hsuch K'an

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-114

  Tsai, Ching Chih ^a   Lin, Hung Hsing ^a   Hsu, Jui Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extended information filter; Laser scanner; Mobile robot; Posture tracking; Self localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MIRRORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION);

EXTENDED INFORMATION FILTERING (EIF); LASER SCANNERS; POSTURE ESTIMATION; RETRO REFLECTORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846798331     PISSN: 02533839     EISSN: 21587299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02533839.2007.9671234     Document Type: Article

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