0 a piece of metal or plastic fastened onto something to show who owns it, who has made it, or who lives or works there:
The textual content of the nameplates is read and used to take high-level control decisions.
There are office nameplates located at the entrance of room's doors.
The last strategy considered by the robot is entering a corridor (using the laser telemeter) and trying again to read a nameplate.
It follows the corridor, and tries to read the nameplates for avoiding getting lost.
When a nameplate is read, the robot knows it has just passed the desired hall and heads back for it.
Figure 3 (a) shows the inner region of an office's nameplate found in a real image.
When the office nameplates are available, they offer all the information needed for topological navigation.
He spoke of plastic nameplates increasing in price from 69p to £65.