Context-aided sensor fusion for enhanced urban navigation

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 16802-16837

  Martí, Enrique David ^a   Martín, David ^a   García, Jesús ^a   de la Escalera, Artur ^a   Molina, José Manuel ^a   Armingol, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Context exploitation; Intelligent systems; Multi sensor fusion; Urban navigation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CONTEXT EXPLOITATION; CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; MULTI-SENSOR FUSION; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER; URBAN NAVIGATION;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; NONLINEAR FILTERING; TRAFFIC CONTROL; URBAN PLANNING;

SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAR; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS;

EID: 84871698310     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s121216802     Document Type: Article

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