Using PCA in time-of-flight vectors for reflector recognition and 3-D localization

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 909-924

  Jiménez, José A ^a   Mazo, Manuel ^a   Ureña, Jesús ^a   Hernández, Alvaro ^a   Álvarez, Fernando ^b   García, Juan Jesús ^a   Santiso, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Principal component analysis (PCA); Reflector classification; Three dimensional (3 D) localization; Times of flight (TOFs); Ultrasonic sensors

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VECTORS;

REFLECTOR CLASSIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL LOCALIZATION; TIMES-OF-FLIGHT VECTORS; ULTRASONIC SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 27144514962     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2005.851375     Document Type: Article

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