Differential compassing helps human-robot teams navigate in magnetically disturbed environments

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1045-1046

  Genovese, Vincenzo ^b   Sabatini, Angelo Maria ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compassing; Leader follower behavior; Relative heading determination; Service robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPASSING; LEADER/FOLLOWER BEHAVIOR; RELATIVE HEADING DETERMINATION; SERVICE ROBOTICS;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOTION PLANNING; PROXIMITY SENSORS; ROBOTICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 33749522489     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.881417     Document Type: Article

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