A fuzzy approach to build sonar maps for mobile robots

Computers in Industry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-167

  Gasós, Jorge ^a,c   Martín, Alejandro ^a,b  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c Lab for Intl Fuzzy Eng Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environment models; Fuzzy logic; Mobile robots; Sonar maps

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; FUZZY SETS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SONAR;

ENVIRONMENT MODELS; MAP BUILDING; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE MODULE; SONAR MAPS; TWO DIMENSIONAL POLYGONAL APPROXIMATION; ULTRASONIC SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0030395495     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(96)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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