Olfaction and hearing based mobile robot navigation for odor/sound source search

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 2129-2154

  Song, Kai ^a   Liu, Qi ^a   Wang, Qi ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Heading direction; Multi robot system; Odor tracking; Smell and hearing; Sound localization; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; HEARING; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; ODOR; ROBOTICS; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HEARING; MOTION; ODORS; ROBOTICS; SMELL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952080734     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110202129     Document Type: Article

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