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From: park@netcom.com (Bill Park)
Subject: Re: Sonar and the 68HC11
Message-ID: <1993Jan28.042118.11470@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.robotics
Summary: Barsan and Kuc at Yale have a bat-like sonar for mobile robots
Keywords: sonar, bat, mobile robots, navigation, guidance
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:21:18 GMT
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In article <1993Jan24.183226.10455@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) 
writes:

>       It's really time for somebody to start developing smarter sonar
> systems for robots. ...
> ...
>       A reasonable way to start would be to use a machine with stereo
> audio inputs and outputs, and try to do bat-type FM sonar, operating
> around 10-20KHz.  
>
>					John Nagle
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I just found these references to some recent work at Yale on advanced
bat-like sonar for guiding mobile robots.  Might be worth looking up.

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Title: Bat-like sonar for guiding mobile robots
Authors: Kuc, R., and Barshan, B.
Affiliation: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yale U., New Haven CT, USA
Journal: IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 4-12
Publication Date: August, 1992
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Title: Bat-like mobile robot for tracking a moving obstacle
Authors: Barshan, B. and Kuc, R.
Affiliation: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yale U., New Haven CT, USA
Journal: Proceedings of the SPIE -- The International Society for Optical 
         Engineering, Vol. 1613, p. 46-57.
Date: 1992
Conference Title: Mobile Robots VI
Sponsor: SPIE
Conference Date: 14-15 Nov., 1991
Conference Location: Boston, MA, USA
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