Classification of textured surfaces for robot navigation using continuous transmission frequency-modulated sonar signatures

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 107-128

  Politis, Z ^a   Probert Smith, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROXIMITY SENSORS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANGE FINDING; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

BIOMIMETIC SONAR; BROADBAND SONAR; FREQUENCY MODULATED SONAR SIGNATURES; KIRCHOFF APPROXIMATION METHOD; ROBOT NAVIGATION; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; STATISTICALLY HOMOGENEOUS FEATURES; TEXTURE RECOGNITION; TEXTURED SURFACES CLASSIFICATION; ULTRASONIC SENSORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0035249728     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/02783640122067291     Document Type: Article

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