Sensor fusion of monocular cameras and laser rangefinders for line-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) tasks in autonomvous mobile robots

Sensors

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 429-452

  Zhang, Xinzheng ^a   Rad, Ahmad B ^b   Wong, Yiu Kwong ^c  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Feature fusion; Homography transform matrix; Multi sensor point estimation fusion (MPEF); SLAM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMS; LASERS; MOTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84863037677     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120100429     Document Type: Article

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