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This paper describes a new technique for determining the distance to a planar surface and, at the same time, obtaining a characterization of the surface’s material through the use of conventional, low-cost infrared sensors. The proposed technique is advantageous over previous schemes in that it does not require additional range sensors, such as ultrasound devices, nor a priori knowledge about the materials that can be encountered. Experiments with an all-terrain mobile robot equipped with a ring of infrared sensors are presented.
This work has been partially supported by the Government of Spain under the CICYT project DPI2001-2094-C03-02.
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Garcia, M.A., Solanas, A. (2005). Automatic Distance Measurement and Material Characterization with Infrared Sensors. In: Nardi, D., Riedmiller, M., Sammut, C., Santos-Victor, J. (eds) RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. RoboCup 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32256-6_39
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