A Fuzzy Perceptual Model for Ultrasound Sensors Applied to Intelligent Navigation of Mobile Robots

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 171-187

  Aguirre, Eugenio ^a   González, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Behavior based systems; Data fusion; Environment modeling; Fuzzy models; Robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; SENSORS; ULTRASONICS;

DATA FUSION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0242442678     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026057906312     Document Type: Article

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