Coaxial range measurement - Current trends for mobile robotic applications

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 2-13

  Adams, Martin D ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

LIDAR; Range sensing; SONAR

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLECTION; LIGHT SIGNALS; RANGE SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSMISSION;

CROSSTALK; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL RADAR; RANGE FINDING; SENSORS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SONAR; TRANSMITTERS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 1542299542     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7361.987055     Document Type: Review

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