Localization of mobile robots using an extended kalman filter in a lEGO NXT

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-144

  Pinto, Miguel ^a   Moreira, António Paulo ^a   Matos, Anbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

robot kinematics; robot programming; robot sensing systems; Robots; state estimation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING; LEGO MINDSTORMS; MOBILE ROBOTIC; NXT TECHNOLOGY; PORTUGAL; ROBOT KINEMATICS; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC TOOL; STUDENT ASSESSMENT;

EXPERIMENTS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSORS; STATE ESTIMATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84857030116     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2011.2155066     Document Type: Article

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