Surface profile determination from multiple sonar data using morphological processing

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 788-808

  Başkent, Deniz ^a   Barshan, Billur ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MOBILE ROBOTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORS;

MAP BUILDING; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING; SONAR SENSING; SURFACE PROFILE EXTRACTION;

SONAR;

EID: 0040066717     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/02783649922066565     Document Type: Article

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