Title
A Robust Approach to Multiple Sensor Based Navigation for an Aerial Robot
Abstract
This paper describes a multiple sensor fusion approach in which a sensor based navigation scheme needs to fuse a stochastic aerial robot position estimate from an extended Kalman filter (EKF) with a deterministic aerial robot position estimate from an interval analysis (IA) algorithm. The aerial robot is equipped with inertial sensors (INS) and ultrasonic sensors. An EKF is used to estimate the aerial robots position using the inertia! sensors. When landmarks are present, the ultrasonic sensor measurements are processed using an IA algorithm to get an interval aerial robot position estimate. In order to obtain a better estimate for the aerial robot position both deterministic and stochastic estimates need to be used via a data fusion approach. Thus there is a need to study how to fuse the aerial robot position estimate having a Gaussian distribution (from EKF) with a aerial robot position estimate that has a uniform distribution (from IA). This is accomplished here by using the Box-Muller transform to transform the interval aerial robot position estimate having a uniform distribution to a real number aerial robot position with a Gaussian distribution and giving that as a measurement to the EKF to obtain a fused estimate of the aerial robot position
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IROS.2006.281639
Beijing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gaussian distribution,Kalman filters,aerospace robotics,position control,sensor fusion,ultrasonic transducers,Box-Muller transform,Gaussian distribution,extended Kalman filter,interval analysis,multiple sensor based navigation,multiple sensor fusion approach,stochastic aerial robot position estimation,ultrasonic sensors
Computer vision,Extended Kalman filter,Computer science,Kalman filter,Sensor fusion,Box–Muller transform,Control engineering,Gaussian,Artificial intelligence,Inertial measurement unit,Interval arithmetic,Robot
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-4244-0259-X
1
0.35
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Immanuel A. R. Ashokaraj110.35
Antonios Tsourdos2243.56
Silson, P.M.G.3618.03
Brian A. White410.35