On autonomous detection of pressured air and gas leaks using passive ir-thermography for mobile robot application

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 921-926

  Kroll, Andreas ^a   Baetz, Werner ^a   Peretzki, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DETECTION; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; GAS LEAKS; IN-SITU; IR-THERMOGRAPHY; NOVEL METHODS; REMOTE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEAK DETECTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; REMOTE SENSING; ROBOTICS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

NAVIGATION;

EID: 70350371449     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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