Environmental perception using sonar with applications in mobile robotics and electric wheelchairs.

Advanced Sonar sensing provides an accurate and low-cost sensing modality for environment perception. By using a powerful emitter and an array of receivers, 3D perception of the environment can be achieved combining a large field of view (full frontal hemisphere). Two applications of the sensor in the fields of electric wheelchairs and robotics are developed.

Keywords:SONAR, 3D PERCEPTION, CONTROL THEORY, ROBOTICS

Disciplines:Applied mathematics in specific fields, Computer architecture and networks, Distributed computing, Information sciences, Information systems, Programming languages, Scientific computing, Theoretical computer science, Visual computing, Other information and computing sciences, Mechanics