Differentiating walls from corners using the amplitude of ultrasonic echoes

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-25

  Benet, Ginés ^a   Martínez, Milagros ^a   Blanes, Francisco ^a   Pérez, Pascual ^a   Simó, José E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amplitude response model; Map building; Mobile robots; Ultrasonic sensors

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE RESPONSE MODEL; MAP BUILDING; TIME-OF-FLIGHT; ULTRASONIC SENSORS;

CAMERAS; DATA PROCESSING; MOBILE ROBOTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC REFLECTION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 11344259512     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2004.07.011     Document Type: Article

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