A novel electrooptical proximity sensor for robotics: Calibration and active sensing

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 377-386

  Bonen, Adi ^b   Saad, Ricardo E ^b   Smith, Kenneth Carless ^a,b   Benhabib, Beno ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PROXIMITY SENSORS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE SENSING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0031164940     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.585900     Document Type: Article

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