An active touch approach to object detection in urban search and rescue

One of the fundamental challenges in robotics is object detection in unstructured environments which includes urban search and rescue (USAR). In these environments, objects' properties are not known a priori, vision is partially or totally impaired and sensing is susceptible to errors. Furtherm...

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Main Author: Pele Odiase, Oziegbe-orhuwa
Published: University of Manchester 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493964