Comparing insect-inspired chemical plume tracking algorithms using a mobile robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-317

  Harvey, David J ^a   Lu, Tien Fu ^a   Keller, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired systems; Mobile robots; Plume tracking; Robot sensing systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; WIND TUNNELS;

CHEMICAL PLUME-TRACKING ALGORITHM; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEM; WIND SPEED;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 42549155741     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.912090     Document Type: Article

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