Improving and designing sensors for the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots (SEAR)

Conference Proceedings - IEEE SOUTHEASTCON

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Harris, Adam C ^a   Conrad, James M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Java; LIDAR; Middleware; MyRobotLab; Robot Operating System; Robotics; ROS; Simulation; Simulator; Ultrasonic

Indexed keywords

MIDDLEWARE; OPTICAL RADAR; ROBOT OPERATING SYSTEM; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ENVIRONMENT; JAVA; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MAGNETIC DECLINATION; MYROBOTLAB; RANGE SENSORS; ROBOTIC SIMULATOR; ROS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84883253970     PISSN: 10910050     EISSN: 1558058X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SECON.2013.6567449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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