Odometry and laser scanner fusion based on a discrete extended Kalman filter for robotic platooning guidance

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8339-8357

  Espinosa, Felipe ^a   Santos, Carlos ^a   Marrón Romera, Marta ^a   Pizarro, Daniel ^a   Valdés, Fernando ^a   Dongil, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data processing; Dead reckoning; Intelligent robots; Kalman filter; Laser application; Multirobot system; Robot control; Robot sensing system; Sensor fusion; State estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LASER; ROBOTICS;

LASERS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 80053195755     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110908339     Document Type: Article

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