Objective speckle velocimetry for autonomous vehicle odometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3478-3490

  Francis, D ^a   Charrett, T O H ^a   Waugh, L ^b   Tatam, R P ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEHICLES; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COMPUTER MODELING; LIGHT EFFICIENCY; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; SCALING FACTORS; SPECKLE PATTERNS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 84861814945     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.003478     Document Type: Article

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