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In this chapter, a methodology to incorporate imaging techniques in distributed robotic applications using through-wall radars is presented. The main idea is to apply concepts from tomography and synthetic aperture radar to gather cross-sectional information of indoor environments using some recent developments in UWB technology. Most of these techniques have not been fully exploited within the robotics community although they were developed more than three decades ago.
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Gomez, J.A., Brooker, G. (2009). Ultra-Wideband Radars for Through-Wall Imaging in Robotics. In: Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Gupta, G.S., Huang, R.YM. (eds) Recent Advances in Sensing Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00578-7_16
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