Kydonas-An Autonomous Hybrid Robot: Walking and Climbing

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 52-59

  Bourbakis, Nikolaos G ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e Elec Eng and Comp Sci Depts ^*  (United States)

^f State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous Walking Wheeled Robots; Robot Design Issues

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WHEELS;

AUTONOMOUS WALKING WHEELED ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032099541     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/100.692341     Document Type: Article

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