Automated tracking of pallets in warehouses: Beacon layout and asymmetric ultrasound observation models

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE CASE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 678-685

  Fogel, Menasheh ^a,d   Burkhart, Nathan ^b   Ren, Hongliang ^c   Schift, Jeremy ^b   Meng, Max ^c   Goldberg, Ken ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITION MONITORING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PALLETS; TRACKING (POSITION); WAREHOUSES;

ASYMMETRIC ULTRASOUND OBSERVATION MODELS; AUTOMATED TRACKING; BEACON LAYOUT; PARAMETRIC PARTICLE FILTERING; ULTRASOUND RESPONSE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 44449083446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2007.4341791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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