On the use of likelihood fields to perform sonar scan matching localization

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 203-222

  Burguera, Antoni ^a   González, Yolanda ^a   Oliver, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b Open University of Spain

Author keywords

Likelihood fields; Scan matching; Sonar

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE SPEED; FIELD-BASED APPROACH; GAUSSIANS; ITERATIVE CLOSEST POINTS; LASER RANGE FINDERS; LASER SCANS; LIKELIHOOD FIELDS; MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SCAN MATCHING; SONAR SENSOR; TIME REQUIREMENTS;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67349258220     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-009-9108-0     Document Type: Article

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