A novel ultrasonic sensing system for autonomous mobile systems

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 597-606

  Bank, Dirk ^a  

^a Forschungsinstitut fur anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; High resolution ultrasonic sensing; Robust sensing; Sensor data fusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSOR DATA FUSION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASONIC SENSING; ROBUST SENSING; ULTRASONIC SENSING SYSTEM;

SENSORS;

EID: 1242327274     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2002.807490     Document Type: Article

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