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Combining Sonar and Infrared Sensors for Mobile Robot Navigation
Abstract
Multiple sensors can be used on a mobile robot so that it can perceive its environment with better accuracy than if either sensor were used alone. Sonar and infrared sensors are used here in a complementary fashion, where the advantages of one compensate for the disadvantages of the other. The robot then combines the information from the two sensors to build a more accurate map. Another representation, a modified version of the curvature primal sketch, is extracted from this perceived workspace and is used as the input to two path planning programs: one based on configuration space and one based on a generalized cone formulation of free space.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Flynn, A. M.
- Venue
- The International Journal of Robotics Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1988-12
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 5-14
- ISSN
- 0278-3649 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3176
- OpenAlex
- W2054983348
- Cited by
- 194
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 21.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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