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Towards Odor-Sensitive Mobile Robots

Towards Odor-Sensitive Mobile Robots

Javier Monroy, Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522538622|ISBN10: 1522538623|EISBN13: 9781522538639
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3862-2.ch012
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Monroy, Javier, and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez. "Towards Odor-Sensitive Mobile Robots." Electronic Nose Technologies and Advances in Machine Olfaction, edited by Yousif Abdullatif Albastaki and Fatema Albalooshi, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 244-263. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3862-2.ch012

APA

Monroy, J. & Gonzalez-Jimenez, J. (2018). Towards Odor-Sensitive Mobile Robots. In Y. Albastaki & F. Albalooshi (Eds.), Electronic Nose Technologies and Advances in Machine Olfaction (pp. 244-263). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3862-2.ch012

Chicago

Monroy, Javier, and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez. "Towards Odor-Sensitive Mobile Robots." In Electronic Nose Technologies and Advances in Machine Olfaction, edited by Yousif Abdullatif Albastaki and Fatema Albalooshi, 244-263. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3862-2.ch012

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Abstract

Out of all the components of a mobile robot, its sensorial system is undoubtedly among the most critical ones when operating in real environments. Until now, these sensorial systems mostly relied on range sensors (laser scanner, sonar, active triangulation) and cameras. While electronic noses have barely been employed, they can provide a complementary sensory information, vital for some applications, as with humans. This chapter analyzes the motivation of providing a robot with gas-sensing capabilities and also reviews some of the hurdles that are preventing smell from achieving the importance of other sensing modalities in robotics. The achievements made so far are reviewed to illustrate the current status on the three main fields within robotics olfaction: the classification of volatile substances, the spatial estimation of the gas dispersion from sparse measurements, and the localization of the gas source within a known environment.

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