Mobile robot sonar interpretation algorithm for distinguishing trees from poles

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-98

  Gao, Wen ^a   Hinders, Mark K ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Mobile robot; Sonar

Indexed keywords

METAL POLES; SCAN ANGLE; SONAR SYSTEM;

BACKSCATTERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; POLES; SONAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 27544487968     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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