Short-range millimeter-wave radar perception in a polar environment

• Main Authors: Alex Foessel, Sachin Chheda, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Antarctic; Tive; Util; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.643.9179; http://www8.cs.umu.se/research/ifor/dl/Sensors/radar/Short-Range Millimeter-Wave Radar Perception in a Polar Environment.pdf

Abstract–Autonomous vehicle operations in Antarctica challenge robotic perception. Flying ice and snow, changing illumination due to low sun angles and lack of contrast degrade stereo and laser sensing. Millimeter-wave radar offers remarkable advan-tages as a robotic perception modality because it i...