Bat-Like Sonar: For Guiding Mobile Robots

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 4-12

  Kuc, Roman ^a   Barshan, Billur ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY - GAME THEORY; ROBOTS - MOBILE;

AVOIDANCE TACTICS; BAT-LIKE SONAR; CAPTURE PROBABILITY; ECHO AMPLITUDE; MOBILE ROBOT GUIDANCE; PREY/PURSUER SPEED RATIO;

SONAR;

EID: 0026908571     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/37.204943     Document Type: Article

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