A novel ultrasonic sensing system for autonomous mobile systems

SENSORS, 2002 IEEE - Tập 2 - Trang 1671-1676 vol.2
D. Bank1
1Research Institute of Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW), Ulm, Germany

Tóm tắt

This paper presents a novel ultrasonic sensing system for autonomous mobile systems. We describe how wide-angled ultrasonic transducers can be used to obtain substantial information on the environment. This can be achieved by exploiting the overlapping of the detection cones from neighboring sensors. The ultrasonic sensing system also allows the detection of multiple echoes from different echo paths for each sensor. In this way a significantly higher number of echoes can be obtained in comparison to conventional ultrasonic sensing systems for mobile robots. In order to benefit from the increased sensor information, adequate data post-processing is required. In this context we describe how an environment model can be created from real ultrasonic sensor data.

Từ khóa

#Sensor systems #Robot sensing systems #Ultrasonic transducers #Mobile robots #Intelligent sensors #Robotics and automation #Object detection #Sensor phenomena and characterization #Safety #Sonar

Tài liệu tham khảo

10.1109/ROBOT.1988.12145 10.1109/ROBOT.1993.291993 1984, Polaroid Corporation, Commercial Battery Division, Ultrasonic Ranging System prassler, 2000, An Autonomous Passenger Transportation System for Public, Crowded Environments, Robotik 2000 schmidt, 1999, Sensorbasierte Umgebungserfassung durch Sensordatenfusion bei Verwendung von Ultraschall- und Videobildsignalen, Intelligente Serviceumgebungen, 35 10.1109/ROBOT.1993.292176 wirnitzer, 1998, Interference Cancelling in Ultrasonic Sensor Arrays by Stochastic Coding and Adaptive Filtering, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Vehicles 10.1109/70.88137 1984, Robert Bosch GmbH, Ultraschallsensor Typ 2 1 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00053-0 10.1109/JRA.1987.1087096 10.1016/0921-8890(94)00026-X kuchling, 1999, Taschenbuch der Physik, Fachbuchverlag Leipzig bank, 2001, Error Detection, Error Recovery and Save Navigation for Autonomous Mobile Systems, Proceedings of the IARP / IEEE-RAS Joint Workshop on “Technical Challenge for Dependable Robots in Human Environments” bank, 1999, AutoBed - An Automatically Guided Hospital Bed, IASTED International Conference Robotics and Applications RA '99, 324 10.1007/978-1-4615-3652-9