Differentiating Sonar Reflections from Corners and Planes by Employing an Intelligent Sensor

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 560-569

  Barshan, Billur ^a   Kuc, Roman ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; intelligent sensors; map building; robot navigation; sensors; signal processing; sonar; time of flight ranging

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS--SENSORS; SENSORS--APPLICATIONS; SONAR;

INTELLIGENT SENSORS; SONAR RANGING SYSTEMS; SONAR REFLECTIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 0025448859     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.56192     Document Type: Article

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