Automatic position calibration and sensor displacement detection for networks of laser range finders for human tracking

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2938-2945

  Glas, Dylan F ^a   Miyashita, Takahiro ^a   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^a,b   Hagita, Norihiro ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CALIBRATION; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; DETECTION SYSTEM; FIELD TRIAL; HUMAN TRACKING; IN-FIELD; LASER RANGE FINDERS; NON-INVASIVE; OFFLINE TEST; POSITION CALIBRATION; PRACTICAL ISSUES; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; SCAN DATA; SENSOR DISPLACEMENT; SENSOR POSITION; VELOCITY-BASED;

CALIBRATION; ERROR DETECTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; RANGE FINDERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TARGET TRACKING;

SENSORS;

EID: 78651491822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5652272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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