Radar-based perception for autonomous outdoor vehicles

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 894-913

  Reina, Giulio ^a   Underwood, James ^b   Brooker, Graham ^b   Durrant Whyte, Hugh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LASER DATA; LASER SENSING; MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; NOVEL METHODS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; OUTDOOR VEHICLES; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RANGE RESOLUTION; RANGE SENSORS; ROBOTIC SENSOR; SINGLE BEAM; SPECULARITIES; SUN ANGLE;

GROUND VEHICLES; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MILLIMETER WAVES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSORS; VISIBILITY;

RADAR;

EID: 80052815175     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20393     Document Type: Article

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