Sonar and video data fusion for robot localization and environment feature estimation

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC '05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 8337-8342

  Bonci, A ^a   Ippoliti, G ^a   La Manna, A ^a   Longhi, S ^a   Sartini, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; KALMAN FILTERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; ROBOTS; SONAR; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERING; FEATURE ESTIMATION; PROBABILISTIC METHOD;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33847237666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1583512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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