Wall following using angle information measured by a single ultrasonic transducer

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 1590-1596

  Yata, T ^a   Kleeman, L ^b   Yuta, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ALGORITHMS; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; MOTION PLANNING;

ANGLE INFORMATION; BEARING ANGLES; DIRECTIVITY; RANGE DATA; TARGET BEARING; ULTRASONIC ECHO; ULTRASONIC PULSE ECHOS; WALL FOLLOWING;

INFORMATION USE; MOBILE ROBOTS;

PULSE ECHO SENSING;

EID: 0031635455     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.677372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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