Robust acoustic source localization of emergency signals from Micro Air Vehicles

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4737-4742

  Basiri, Meysam ^a,b   Schill, Felix ^a   Lima, Pedro U ^b   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ACOUSTIC SOURCE LOCALIZATION; AERIAL PLATFORM; CROSS CORRELATIONS; NARROW-BAND SOUND; NIGHT TIME; OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES; PARTICLE FILTER; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; RESCUE OPERATIONS; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SEARCH AREA; SOUND SIGNAL; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SIGNALING;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 84872345171     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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