Multirobot object localization: A fuzzy fusion approach

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1259-1276

  LeBlanc, Kevin ^a   Saffiotti, Alessandro ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Information fusion; Multirobot systems; Object localization

Indexed keywords

FUZZY FUSION; FUZZY INTERSECTIONS; MULTIROBOT; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; OBJECT LOCALIZATION; OBJECT POSITIONS; POSITION ESTIMATES; POSITION INFORMATION; SELF-LOCALIZATION; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT;

FUZZY SETS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INFORMATION FUSION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROBOTICS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 67649388046     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2009.2015279     Document Type: Article

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