Field experiments of an automated materials identification and localization model

Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 689-696

  Torrent, David Grau ^a   Caldas, Carlos H ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATIONS; AUTOMATED MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; LOCALIZATION MODELING; RELATIVE DISTANCES; SIGNAL STRENGTHS;

ALGORITHMS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 78649327916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40937(261)82     Document Type: Conference Paper

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