All-weather perception for man-portable robots using ultra-wideband radar

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3610-3615

  Yamauchi, Brian ^a  

^a IROBOT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE WEATHER; DENSE FOG; FILTERING ALGORITHM; GROUND CLUTTER; MAN-PORTABLE; OBSTACLE DETECTION; RADAR RETURNS; SMALL ROBOTS; SONAR SENSOR; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS; UWB RADARS;

MILITARY APPLICATIONS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SONAR; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

TRACKING RADAR;

EID: 77955836012     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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