© Peter Matthews, Steven Greenspan 2020
P. Matthews, S. GreenspanAutomation and Collaborative Roboticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5964-1_6

6. Robots in a World of Data

Creating Human-Robot Synergy
Peter Matthews1  and Steven Greenspan2
(1)
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK
(2)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
 

Data fusion is considered an important component for many of the new technology initiatives that are being developed. We define data fusion in the next section of the chapter. Data fusion is an enabling technology in many domains, but currently it has been brought to prominence by the development of autonomous vehicles, intelligent automation, and collaborating autonomous mobile robots.

The importance of data fusion in robotics is attributed to ...

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