Estimation of visual maps with a robot network equipped with vision sensors

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 5209-5232

  Gil, Arturo ^a   Reinoso, Óscar ^a   Ballesta, Mónica ^a   Juliá, Miguel ^a   Payá, Luis ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cooperative robots; Sensor fusion; Uncertainty estimation; Visual SLAM

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COOPERATIVE ROBOTS; RAO-BLACKWELLIZED PARTICLE FILTER; RELATIVE MEASUREMENT; SENSOR FUSION; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING PROBLEMS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; VISUAL SLAM;

ESTIMATION; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77953518515     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100505209     Document Type: Article

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