On modular design of field robotic systems

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-65

  Farritor, Shane ^a   Dubowsky, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

FIELD ROBOTIC SYSTEMS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0034818629     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026596403167     Document Type: Article

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