A Bayesian approach to information fusion for evaluating the measurement uncertainty

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-344

  Sommer, Klaus Dieter ^a   Kühn, Olaf ^b   León, Fernando Puente ^c   Siebert, Bernd R L ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b Thuringian State Bureau for Metrology and Verification (LMET)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayes; Fusion; Measurement uncertainty; Monte Carlo; Probability density

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYES; FUSION; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MONTE-CARLO; PROBABILITY DENSITY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 59249091646     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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