Assessment of laser range finders in risky environments

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3533-3538

  Pascoal, José ^a   Marques, Lino ^a   De Almeida, Aníbal T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE ENVIRONMENT; LASER RANGE FINDERS; LOW VISIBILITY; MOBILE ROBOTIC; TARGET SURFACE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; RANGE FINDERS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 69549088837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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