Displacement analysis of an actively articulated wheeled vehicle configuration with extensions to motion planning on uneven terrain

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 312-317

  Sreenivasan, S V ^a   Waldron, K J ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; WHEELS;

ACTIVELY ARTICULATED WHEELED VEHICLES; DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS; OBSTACLE CLIMBING; SELF RECOVERY; UNEVEN TERRAIN;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0030172815     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2826886     Document Type: Article

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