Robotic mapping assisted by local magnetic field anomalies

2011 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 25-30

  Zhang, Haiyang ^a   Martin, Fred ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

anomaly; localization; magnetic field; robotic mapping; SLAM

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CURRENT SENSORS; ELECTRONIC COMPASS; KEY PROBLEMS; LASER RANGE FINDERS; LOCAL MAGNETIC FIELD; LOCALIZATION; LOOP CLOSURE; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MATCHING SCORE; PARTICLE FILTER; PARTICLE FILTER ALGORITHMS; ROBOTIC MAPPING; SENSOR DATA; SLAM; SLAM (SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING); WEIGHT CALCULATION; WEIGHT VALUES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); IMAGE MATCHING; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAPPING; NONLINEAR FILTERING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79956086329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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