Odor source localization using a mobile robot in outdoor airflow environments with a particle filter algorithm

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-292

  Li, Ji Gong ^a   Meng, Qing Hao ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Zeng, Ming ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mobile robot; Odor source localization; Olfaction; Particle filter

Indexed keywords

ODOR SOURCE LOCALIZATION; ODOR SOURCES; OLFACTION; OUTDOOR AIRFLOW; PARTICLE FILTER; PARTICLE FILTER ALGORITHMS; REAL TIME; SMALL AREA; SOURCE LOCATION; TIME VARIANT;

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; TARGET TRACKING;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 79958249138     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-011-9219-2     Document Type: Article

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