Motion planning of a wheeled mobile robot with slip-free motion capability on a smooth uneven surface

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4, Issue , 1998, Pages 3727-3732

  Chol, B J ^a   Sreenivasan, S V ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; WHEELS; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTACT SENSORS; POSITION CONTROL;

CONTACT LOCATION; FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY; KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; MOTION PLANNING ALGORITHMS; MULTIPLE CONTACTS; SLIP-FREE MOTION; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING; MOBILE ROBOTS;

TERRAIN ADAPTIVE MOBILE ROBOTS (TAMR); WHEEL GROUND CONTACTS;

EID: 0031626553     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.681420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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