Robust small robot localization from highly uncertain sensors

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-519

  Kramer, Jeffrey ^a   Kandel, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Localization; mathematical filters; robot localization; robotics; sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL ABILITY; LOCALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL FILTERS; POSE ESTIMATION; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SENSOR DATA; SENSOR FUSION; SMALL ROBOTS; STATE OF THE ART;

FUZZY FILTERS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 79959606477     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2010.2068545     Document Type: Article

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