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Different ultrasonic transducer technologies are outlined with their main characteristics highlighted. The source of sonar artifacts is explained and how they can be dealt with. This chapter presents the fundamentals and physics of sonar sensing for object localization, landmark measurement and classification in robotics applications. Sonar or ultrasonic sensing uses the propagation of acoustic energy at higher frequencies than normal hearing to extract information from the environment.
