Multi-level state estimation in an outdoor decentralised sensor network

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2008, Pages 355-365

  Upcroft, B ^a   Ridley, M ^a   Ong, L L ^a   Douillard, B ^a   Kaupp, T ^a   Kumar, S ^a   Bailey, T ^a   Ramos, F ^a   Makarenko, A ^a   Brooks, A ^a   Sukkarieh, S ^a   Durrant Whyte, H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; REAL TIME CONTROL; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; STATE ESTIMATION;

DECENTRALISED DATA FUSION; MULTI-LEVEL STATE ESTIMATION; OUTDOOR DECENTRALISED SENSOR NETWORK;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 38949169565     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77457-0_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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