An FPGA implementation for a Kalman filter with application to mobile robotics

2007 Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems Proceeedings, SIES'2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 148-155

  Bonato, Vanderlei ^a   Peron, Rafael ^a   Wolf, Denis F ^a   De Holanda, Jose A M ^a   Marques, Eduardo ^a   Cardoso, João M P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INESC   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONTROL THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; PROBABILITY; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; WAVE FILTERS;

COMPUTING POWERS; CUSTOM INSTRUCTION; DATA BUSES; FPGA DEVICES; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; HARDWARE ACCELERATORS; HARDWARE RESOURCES; IN ORDER; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MOBILE ROBOTICS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILISTIC THEORY; ROBOT PERCEPTION; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING (SLAM);

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 46749102583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIES.2007.4297329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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