Recognizing plants with ultrasonic sensing for mobile robot navigation

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 71-82

  Harper, Neil ^a,b   McKerrow, Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ULTRASONIC SENSING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034836775     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(00)00112-3     Document Type: Article

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