Physics-based planning for planetary exploration

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 278-283

  Farritor, S ^a   Hacot, H ^a   Dubowsky, S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS; ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOTION PLANNING;

LEVEL OF AUTONOMIES; PHYSICS-BASED MODELING; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; PLANETARY ROVERS; PLANNING METHOD; PLANNING METHODOLOGY; SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION; VEHICLE STABILITY;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MOBILE ROBOTS;

PLANETARY EXPLORATION; PLANETARY ROVERS;

EID: 0031636812     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.676399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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