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      Range estimation using simple infrared sensors without prior knowledge of surface parameters

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      Yüzbaşıoğlu, Çağrı
      Barshan, Billur
      Date
      2004
      Source Title
      Proceedings of the 12th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, IEEE 2004
      Publisher
      IEEE
      Pages
      481 - 484
      Language
      Turkish
      Type
      Conference Paper
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      Abstract
      This paper describes a new method for range estimation using low-cost infrared sensors. The intensity data obtained with infrared sensors depends highly on the surface properties and the configuration of the sensors and the surface. Therefore, in many of the related studies, either the properties of the surface are determined first or certain assumptions about the surface are made in order to calculate the distance and the orientation of the surface relative to the sensors. In this paper, we propose a novel method for position estimation of surfaces with infrared sensors without the need to determine the surface properties first. The method is verified experimentally with planar surfaces covered with white paper, wooden block, bubbled packing material, white styrofoam, blue and brown cardboard. The overall absolute mean error in the range estimates has been calculated as 0.21 cm in the range from 12.5 to 45 cm. The results obtained demonstrate that infrared sensors can be easily used for localization to an unexpectedly high accuracy without prior knowledge of the surface parameters.
      Keywords
      Infrared sensors
      Localization
      Range estimation
      Surface parameters
      Error analysis
      Infrared devices
      Parameter estimation
      Sensors
      Surfaces
      Tracking (position)
      Range finders
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/27424
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      https://doi.org/10.1109/SIU.2004.1338569
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