Building a Sonar Map in a Specular Environment Using a Single Mobile Sensor

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1991, Pages 1260-1269

  Bozma, Omur ^a   Kuc, Roman ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC WAVES--PROPAGATION; SENSORS;

ACOUSTIC SENSORS; MOBILE SENSORS; SONAR MAP BUILDING;

SONAR;

EID: 0026390020     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.107000     Document Type: Article

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