Abstract
Data/information fusion, as a methodology to integrate information stemming from different sources to get a more refined and meaningful knowledge, has gained a lot of interest within several communities as it sounds from the number of publications and successful applications in this area. This chapter is aimed to explore how the fusion methodology is decomposed into a set of primary subtasks where the elicitation and the architecture play a central role in the fusion process. Particularly the contributions of soft Computing techniques at various levels of the fusion architecture are laid bare. Some exemplifications, through the use of seriai and parallel architectures, employing both probabilistic and possibilistic approaches, have been carried out. Finally a robotics application consisting in a localization of a mobile robot has been performed and shows how the different steps of the fusion architecture have been handled.
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Oussalah, M. (2003). Introduction to Fusion Based Systems — Contributions of Soft Computing Techniques and Application to Robotics. In: Zhou, C., Maravall, D., Ruan, D. (eds) Autonomous Robotic Systems. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 116. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1767-6_2
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