Minimally actuated hopping rover for exploration of celestial bodies

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 420-427

  Hale, Eric ^a   Schara, Nathan ^a   Burdick, Joel ^a   Fiorini, Paolo ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOPPING ROVER; MARS; PLANETARY EXPLORATION;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; PLANETS; ROBOTICS; SPACE RESEARCH; VIDEO CAMERAS;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

EID: 0033690377     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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