Biomimetic sonar: Binaural 3D localization using artificial bat pinnae

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 975-987

  Schillebeeckx, Filips ^a   De Mey, Fons ^a   Vanderelst, Dieter ^a   Peremans, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

biologically inspired robotics; localization; robot perception; Sonar

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; 3D LOCALIZATION; A-POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; AZIMUTH-ELEVATION; BIO-INSPIRED; BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTICS; ECHO SPECTRA; HEAD GEOMETRY; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; LOCALIZATION; NOISE CONDITIONS; ROBOT PERCEPTION; SONAR SENSOR; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPECTRAL FILTERING; SPECTRAL FILTERS; SPECTRUM DISTORTION; TARGET ECHO;

BIOMIMETICS; EXPERIMENTS; REFLECTION; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79960545114     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364910380474     Document Type: Article

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