Ultrasound-based robot position estimation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 682-692

  Wehn, Hans W ^a   Bélanger, Pierre R ^b  

^a MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERING; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; POSITION CONTROL; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE;

CONVECTION CURRENTS; FEEDBACK LOOP; ROBOT POSITION ESTIMATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0031257904     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.631230     Document Type: Article

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