Decentralized data fusion and control in active sensor networks

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 479-486

  Makarenko, Alexei ^a   Durrant Whyte, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Decentralized data fusion; Mobile robots; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DECENTRALIZED DATA FUSION; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 6344280669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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