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An Overview of Local Environment Sensing in Robotics Applications

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Sensors and Sensory Systems for Advanced Robots

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NATO ASI F,volume 43))

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This paper presents an overview of the basic technical solutions for local environment sensing, and gives some examples of realizations. A first section sets the problem of local sensing through three concepts: relativity of the informations, necessity of compactness, fastness of the related control loops. Section 2 gives a comparative presentation of the possible local sensors and describes contact, magnetic and ultrasonic sensors. Section 3 is devoted to optical sensors, including local vision and optoelectronic systems: triangulation, phase shift and reflectance sensors. Section 4 deals with multisensory systems and local control. The paper ends with the presentation of some realizations and gives some remarks about the future of local environment sensing.

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Espiau, B. (1988). An Overview of Local Environment Sensing in Robotics Applications. In: Dario, P. (eds) Sensors and Sensory Systems for Advanced Robots. NATO ASI Series, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83410-3_6

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