High reliability outdoor sonar prototype based on efficient signal coding

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1862-1870

  Álvarez, Fernando J ^b   Ureña, Jesús ^c   Mazo, Manuel ^a,c   Hernández, Álvaro ^c   García, Juan J ^c   De Marziani, Carlos ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SONAR; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

RANDOM FLUCTUATIONS; SONAR PROTOTYPE; ULTRASONIC PULSE COMPRESSION; ULTRASONIC SENSORS;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DATA COMPRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845644298     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.118     Document Type: Article

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