Radius of curvature estimation and localization of targets using multiple sonar sensors

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2318-2331

  Barshan, Billur ^a   Sekmen, Ali Şafak ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SONAR;

MULTISENSOR SONAR SYSTEMS; TARGET REFLECTION GEOMETRY; TIME OF FLIGHT (TOF) ESTIMATION;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ECHOLOCATION; ERROR; FLIGHT; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0033003736     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426838     Document Type: Article

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