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An Experimental System

January 1990

DOI:10.1007/978-1-4613-1545-2_8

In book: Task-Directed Sensor Fusion and Planning (pp.175-198)

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In order to draw together a number of the concepts and ideas in this book, we describe an experimental system and the results of some experiments with the previously described grid-based techniques. This system is not by any manes an extremely complex multi-sensor system, but it serves to test the fusion and information-gathering methods, as well as to illustrate some organizational principles. We will first explain the operation of the basic components and detail a sensor fusion program for the system, and then present the results of several different types of information gathering.

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