Virtual lifeline: Multimodal sensor data fusion for robust navigation in unknown environments

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 388-401

  Widyawan, ^a   Pirkl, Gerald ^b   Munaretto, Daniele ^c   Fischer, Carl ^d   An, Chunlei ^e   Lukowicz, Paul ^b   Klepal, Martin ^f   Timm Giel, Andreas ^g   Widmer, Joerg ^h   Pesch, Dirk ^f   Gellersen, Hans ^d  

^a GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f Department of Chemistry   (Ireland)

^g HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h IMDEA NETWORKS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Navigation; Sensor data fusion; Unknown environments; Virtual lifeline

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY SERVICES; LOCATION; NAVIGATION; SENSOR NODES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ABSOLUTE COORDINATE; GLOBAL POSITIONING; IN-DOOR NAVIGATIONS; PEDESTRIAN DEAD RECKONING (PDR); SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL LIFELINE; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 84861182653     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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