Monte Carlo localization in outdoor terrains using multilevel surface maps

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 6-7, 2008, Pages 346-359

  Kümmerle, Rainer ^a   Triebel, Rudolph ^b   Pfaff, Patrick ^a   Burgard, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; ESTIMATION; LEAD; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSORS; STANDARDS; TARGET TRACKING; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ACTIVE SENSING; CLUSTERING OPERATION; ELEVATION MAPS; LASER RANGE SCANNERS; MONTE CARLO LOCALIZATION (MCL); MULTIPLE LEVELS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; PARTICLE FILTER (PF); POSITION ESTIMATES; PROPOSAL DISTRIBUTION; RANGE DATA; SENSOR MODELLING; SENSOR ORIENTATION; SURFACE MAPS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D); VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

MAPS;

EID: 47649115321     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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