A supervised learning approach to robot localization using a short-range RFID sensor

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1762-1771

  Tanaka, Kanji ^a   Kimuro, Yoshihiko ^b   Yamano, Kentaro ^a   Hirayama, Mitsuru ^a   Kondo, Eiji ^a   Matsumoto, Michihito ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Systems Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Landmark arrangement; RFID; Robot localization; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DATA ASSOCIATION PROBLEM; LANDMARK ARRANGEMENT; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SUPERVISED LEARNING APPROACHES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 63249089790     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.11.1762     Document Type: Article

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