A global self-localization technique utilizing local anomalies of the ambient magnetic field

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3142-3147

  Haverinen, Janne ^a   Kemppainen, Anssi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES; GLOBAL LOCALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVICES; LOCAL DEVIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD FLUCTUATIONS; MODERN BUILDINGS; MONTE CARLO LOCALIZATION; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; SELF-LOCALIZATION;

BUILDING MATERIALS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOMETERS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 70350389347     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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