An experimental environment for optimal spatial sampling in a multi-robot system

Intelligent Autonomous Systems 10, IAS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 54-63

  Kemppainen, Anssi ^a   Mäkelä, Toni ^a   Haverinen, Janne ^a   Röning, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Distributed sensing; Environment modelling; Non stationary gaussian processes

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT LIGHT; CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS; CEILING CAMERA; CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; ENVIRONMENT MODELLING; EXPERIMENTAL ENVIRONMENT; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; GEO-STATISTICS; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE SENSORS; MULTI-ROBOT LOCALIZATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; NON-STATIONARY MODEL; OPTIMAL SAMPLING; OPTIMAL SPATIAL SAMPLING; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; REGRESSION MODEL; SAMPLING LOCATION; SCALAR MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR LOCATION; TEMPERATURE LEVEL;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER VISION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FLUX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSORS;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

EID: 84871782697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-887-8-54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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