A Novel Ultrasonic Sensing System for Autonomous Mobile Systems

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1671-1676

  Bank, Dirk ^a  

^a Forschungsinstitut fur anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung   (Germany)

Author keywords

High resolution ultrasonic sensing; Mobile robots; Robust sensing; Sensor data fusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; RANGE FINDING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASONIC SENSING; ROBUST SENSING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 1542270992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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