Walker's buddy: An ultrasonic dangerous terrain detection system

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 4292-4296

  Hsu, Yating ^a   Hsiao, S F ^a   Chiang, C E ^a   Chien, Y H ^a   Tseng, H W ^a   Pang, A C ^a   Kuo, T W ^a   Chiang, K H ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COST REDUCTION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; STABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS); SYSTEM PROTOTYPE; ULTRASONIC SIGNALS;

ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

EID: 34548142160     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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