Mobile robots with active IR-optical sensing for remote gas detection and source localization

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2773-2778

  Baetz, Werner ^a   Kroll, Andreas ^a   Bonow, Gero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; GAS CONCENTRATION; GAS LEAK DETECTION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL SENSING; RAPID SCAN; REMOTE GAS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SOURCE LOCALIZATION; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS;

CHEMICAL PLANTS; LEAK DETECTION; REMOTE SENSING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GAS ABSORPTION;

EID: 70350349878     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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