A sensor fusion framework for online sensor and algorithm selection

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 762-776

  Cohen, Ofir ^a   Edan, Yael ^b  

^a ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Algorithm selection; Mobile robots; Performance measures; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

FUSION REACTIONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SENSORS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM SELECTION; LOGICAL SENSORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PERFORMANCE MEASURES; ROBOT PLATFORM; RULE-BASED; SENSOR DATA; SENSOR FUSION; SENSOR FUSION ALGORITHMS; SENSOR PERFORMANCES; TIME-SERIES;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 49649122075     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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