Treatment of Systematic Errors in the Processing of Wide-Angle Sonar Sensor Data for Robotic Navigation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 137-145

  Beckerman, Martin ^a   Oblow, E M ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT ERRORS; ROBOTICS--VISION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING--DIGITAL TECHNIQUES; SONAR;

HERMIES-IIB ROBOT; NAVIGATION MAPS; PATTERN ANALYSIS; ROBOTIC NAVIGATION; SONAR SENSOR DATA; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 0025419856     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.54730     Document Type: Article

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