Global posture estimation of a tour-guide robot using RFID and laser scanning measurements

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 483-488

  Lin, Hung Hsing ^a,b   Tsai, Ching Chih ^a   Chang, Hsu Yang ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HSIUPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c Precision Machinery Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended Information filter; Laser scanner; Posture estimation; RFID; Tour guide robot

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RFID; ANNUAL CONFERENCE; DRIVING WHEELS; EXTENDED INFORMATION FILTER; EXTENDED INFORMATION FILTERING; LASER SCANNER; LASER SCANNING; LEAST-SQUARE METHODS; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHMS; LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS; ODOMETRIC; POSTURE ESTIMATION; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATIONS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATION; RFID; ROBOT'S POSES; START UPS; TOUR-GUIDE ROBOT;

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SCANNING;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 49949106205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2007.4460081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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