It is often useful to know the geographic positions of nodes in a communications network, but adding GPS receivers or other sophisticated sensors to every node can be expensive. W...
Yi Shang, Wheeler Ruml, Ying Zhang, Markus P. J. F...
The asymptotic distribution of estimates that are based on a sub-optimal search for the maximum of the log-likelihood function is considered. In particular, estimation schemes that...
Abstract— Tracked mobile robots in the 20 kg size class are under development for applications in urban reconnaissance. For efficient deployment, it is desirable for teams of ro...
Robert W. Hogg, Arturo L. Rankin, Stergios I. Roum...
This paper introduces a “weighted” matching algorithm to estimate a robot’s planar displacement by matching twodimensional range scans. The influence of each scan point on ...
Samuel T. Pfister, Kristopher L. Kriechbaum, Sterg...
Average consensus and gossip algorithms have recently received significant attention, mainly because they constitute simple and robust algorithms for distributed information proc...