Fast mobile robot obstacle detection using simultaneous firing of sonar ring sensors

International Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 207-212

  Masek, Vlastimil ^a   Kajitani, Makoto ^a   Ming, Aiguo ^a   Vlacic, Ljubisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bipolar backpropagation neural network; Crosstalk; Multiple echo reception; Simultaneous firing; Sonar ring; Ultrasonic range sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005612294     PISSN: 0916782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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