EFG-EKF-SLAM: Entropy-Gated Innovation for Feature-Aware Extended Kalman Slam
By: Nasr Rashid, Shawki A. Saad and Khaled Kaaniche
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Language: English
Page range: 298 - 306
Submitted on: Oct 7, 2025
Accepted on: Mar 31, 2026
Published on: Jul 16, 2026
Published by: Bialystok University of Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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