Tethered Mobile Robot for Automating Highway Maintenance Operations

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 297-307

  Hong, Daehie ^a   Velinsky, Steven A ^a   Yamazaki, Kazuo ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Highway maintenance; Path tracking; Servo control; Wheeled mobile robot

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SERVOMECHANISMS; STEERING; TRACKING (POSITION);

PATH TRACKING; TETHERED MOBILE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031366071     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-5845(97)00002-1     Document Type: Article

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