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Design and Characterisation of a Full-Field Range Imaging Camera for Use in Mobile Applications

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This chapter will outline the design and testing of a compact, configurable, indirect time of flight range imager. Potential applications include areas such as mobile robotics, where the introduction of robots into more complex environments necessitates the development of more advanced sensor systems. This chapter evaluates the range imager, particularly with regard to motion, and demonstrates that an improvement in the linearity of the motion error is possible by changing the order of frame measurements.

Based on The Development of a Time of Flight Range Imager for Mobile Robotics, by Ben Drayton, Dale A. Carnegie and Adrian A. Dorrington which appeared in the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA 2011). © 2011 IEEE.

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  1. School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Ben Drayton & Dale A. Carnegie

  2. School of Engineering, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Adrian A. Dorrington

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  1. School of Engineering &, Advanced Technology (SEAT), Massey University, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand

    Gourab Sen Gupta

  2. , School of Engineering and Advanced Techn, Massey University, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand

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    Serge Demidenko

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    Dale Carnegie

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Drayton, B., Carnegie, D.A., Dorrington, A.A. (2013). Design and Characterisation of a Full-Field Range Imaging Camera for Use in Mobile Applications. In: Sen Gupta, G., Bailey, D., Demidenko, S., Carnegie, D. (eds) Recent Advances in Robotics and Automation. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37387-9_11

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