Ultrasonic relative positioning for multi-robot systems

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 323-328

  Rivard, Frédéric ^a   Bisson, Jonathan ^a   Michaud, François ^a   Létourneau, Dominic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; ULTRASONICS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MOBILE ROBOTS; RELATIVE POSITIONING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649123239     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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