Real-time indoor localization support for four-rotor flying robots using sensor nodes

2009 IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments, ROSE 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-28

  Eckert, Juergen ^a   Dressler, Falko ^a   German, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flying robot; Indoor localization; Sensor network; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; CONTROLLED SYSTEM; FLYING OBJECTS; FLYING ROBOTS; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; INDOOR OPERATIONS; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; LATERAL DRIFTS; LIMITED MEMORY; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; ON-BOARD SENSORS; POSITION CONTROLLER; REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION; TIME OF FLIGHT; ULTRASOUND SENSORS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 76249114596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROSE.2009.5355994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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