Classifying surface roughness with CTFM ultrasonic sensing

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1267-1279

  McKerrow, Phillip J ^a,b   Kristiansen, Bjorn E ^b  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuous transmission frequency modulated (CTFM) ultrasonic sensor; Mahalanobis classifier; Spatial angle filter; Surface roughness; Ultrasonic sensing; Wheeled mobile robot

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY MODULATED (CTFM) ULTRASONIC SENSOR; MAHALANOBIS CLASSIFIER; SPATIAL-ANGLE FILTER; ULTRASONIC SENSING; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

FREQUENCY MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSORS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SURFACE STRUCTURE; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 33749507177     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.881419     Document Type: Article

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