Global indoor self-localization based on the ambient magnetic field

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1028-1035

  Haverinen, Janne ^a   Kemppainen, Anssi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Magnetic field; Mobile robot; Monte Carlo localization

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT MAGNETIC FIELDS; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES; INDUSTRIAL DEVICES; LOCAL DEVIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD FLUCTUATIONS; MONTE CARLO LOCALIZATION; NONUNIFORM; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; SELF-LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BUILDING MATERIALS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETOMETERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

COMPASSES (MAGNETIC);

EID: 70249149964     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.07.018     Document Type: Article

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