Autonomous marine craft navigation: On the study of radar obstacle detection

11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 567-572

  Onunka, Chiemela ^a   Bright, Glen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Obstacle detection; Radar analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL PROCESS; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; FALSE ALARMS; FLUCTUATING TARGETS; MARINE CRAFTS; MARINE NAVIGATION; MARINE ROBOTICS; MULTIPLE TARGETS; OBSTACLE DETECTION; POWER RANGE; RADAR ANALYSIS; RADAR RANGE EQUATIONS; RADAR SIGNAL ANALYSIS; RADAR TECHNOLOGY; RANGE BINS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; TARGET CHARACTERISTIC; TARGET DETECTION; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TARGET TRACKING; TRACKING RADAR;

MARINE RADAR;

EID: 79952402128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV.2010.5707239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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