TY - CHAP A1 - Bemporad, Alberto A1 - Di Marco, Mauro A1 - Tesi, Alberto UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=657920&isnumber=14225 M1 - 3 Y1 - 1997/// KW - Convergence; Infrared sensors; Merging; Mobile robots; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Sensor fusion; Sonar; Velocity control; Wheels CY - San Diego, December 1997 AV - none SP - 3063 TI - Wall-following controllers for sonar-based mobile robots PB - IEEE T2 - Decision and Control Conference SN - 0-7803-4187-2 N2 - For mobile robots equipped with incremental encoders and one sonar sensor this paper presents wall-following controllers that achieve global convergence, as well as the fulfillment of constraints on the orientation of the sonar and the velocities of the wheels. A sensor fusion approach for the estimation of the robot's coordinates is adopted by designing an extended Kalman filter that combines ultrasonic and odometric data ID - eprints602 EP - 3068 ER -