Autonomous water vapor plume tracking robot using passive resistive polymer sensors

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 175-188

  Kazadi, S ^a   Goodman, R ^a   Tsikata, D ^a   Green, D ^a   Lin, H ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ODORS; POLYMERS; SENSORS; VAPORS;

OLFACTORY PLUME TRACKING; RESISTIVE POLYMER SENSORS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0034272683     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008970418316     Document Type: Article

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