Consistent triangulation for mobile robot localization using discontinuous angular measurements

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 931-942

  Font Llagunes, Josep M ^a   Batlle, Joaquim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kalman filtering; Localization; Mobile robotics; Navigation; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MEASUREMENTS; CONSISTENT TRIANGULATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL OPERATIONS; KALMAN FILTERING; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION; MOBILE ROBOTICS; ODOMETRIC; ODOMETRIC INFORMATION; OMNIDIRECTIONAL WHEEL; OPTIMAL ESTIMATIONS; ROBOT POSE; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; STATE-VECTOR; TRIANGULATION METHOD;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

TRIANGULATION;

EID: 68749094959     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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