RoPEUS: A new robust algorithm for static positioning in ultrasonic systems

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4211-4229

  Prieto, José Carlos ^a   Croux, Christophe ^b   Jiménez, Antonio Ramón ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Local positioning systems; Robust positioning; Robust statistics; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; APPLICATION OF STANDARDS; LOCAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REFINEMENT ALGORITHMS; ROBUST POSITIONING; ROBUST STATISTICS; ULTRASOUND LOCALIZATION; ULTRASOUND-BASED SYSTEMS;

STATISTICS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; ULTRASONICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67649622439     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90604211     Document Type: Article

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