Frequency response method for terrain classification in autonomous ground vehicles

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 337-347

  DuPont, Edmond M ^a   Moore, Carl A ^a   Collins Jr , Emmanuel G ^a   Coyle, Eric ^a  

^a FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous ground vehicles; Probabilistic neural network

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL SPEEDS; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 40249115023     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-007-9077-0     Document Type: Article

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