Decentralized sensor fusion for ubiquitous networking robotics in urban areas

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2274-2314

  Sanfeliu, Alberto ^a   Andrade Cetto, Juan ^a   Barbosa, Marco ^b   Bowden, Richard ^c   Capitán, Jeśus ^e   Corominas, Andreu ^a   Gilbert, Andrew ^c   Illingworth, John ^c   Merino, Luis ^d   Mirats, Josep M ^a   Moreno, Plínio ^b   Ollero, Aníbal ^e,f   Sequeira, João ^b   Spaan, Matthijs T J ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^f Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies CATEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Camera network; Distributed sensors; Network robot systems; Robot sensors

Indexed keywords

CAMERA NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; EUROPEAN PROJECT; ROBOT ARCHITECTURE; ROBOT SENSORS; ROBOT SYSTEM; SENSOR ARCHITECTURES; UBIQUITOUS NETWORKING;

ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSOR NETWORKS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; URBAN GROWTH;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CITY; COMPUTER NETWORK; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ROBOTICS; TELEMETRY; VIDEORECORDING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CITIES; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROBOTICS; TELEMETRY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77955480978     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100302274     Document Type: Article

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