Indoor inter-robot distance measurement in collaborative systems

Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 21-26

  Micea, Mihai V ^a   Stancovici, Andrei ^a   Chiciudean, Dan ^a   Filote, Constantin ^b  

^a POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^b STEFAN CEL MARE UNIVERSITY OF SUCEAVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Collaborative system; Distance measurement; Indoor communication; Mobile robots; Sonar

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956625013     PISSN: 15827445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4316/aece.2010.03004     Document Type: Article

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