Sensor data fusion for terrain exploration by collaborating unmanned ground vehicles

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nordin, Peter ^a   Andersson, Lars ^a   Nygårds, Jonas ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Data association; Kalman filtering; SAM; Sensor data fusion; SLAM; Traversability estimation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CONTROL THEORY; DATA FUSION; FUSION REACTIONS; GROUND VEHICLES; INFORMATION FUSION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MILITARY VEHICLES; MISSILE BASES; RISK PERCEPTION; SENSORS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

COLLABORATION; DATA ASSOCIATION; KALMAN FILTERING; SAM; SLAM; TRAVERSABILITY ESTIMATION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 56749119956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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