Constructing dependable certainty grids from unreliable sensor data

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1094-1101

  Elmenreich, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autonomous robot; Certainty grid; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CERTAINTY GRID; CERTAINTY GRIDS; CONFIDENCE VALUES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; FAULT-TOLERANT; FAULTY MEASUREMENTS; GRID CELLS; GRID MAPS; INDEPENDENT SENSORS; MULTIPLE SENSORS; NOVEL ALGORITHMS; SENSING RANGES; SENSOR FUSION; SENSOR INPUTS; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR VALIDATIONS; TRANSIENT FAULTS; UNRELIABLE SENSORS;

SENSORS;

EID: 55149086822     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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