Ultrasonic potential field sensor for obstacle avoidance

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 774-779

  Veelaert, Peter ^a   Bogaerts, Wim ^b  

^a Hogeschool   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTACT SENSORS; MOTION PLANNING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS (APF); VECTOR FIELD HISTOGRAM METHOD;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032646390     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.782033     Document Type: Article

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