Design considerations in the development of a spherical mobile robot

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4364, Issue , 2001, Pages 61-71

  Das, T ^a   Mukherjee, R ^a   Yuksel, H ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Exo skeleton; Mobile robot; Motion planning; Propulsion mechanism; Spherical

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; PROPULSION; STEREO VISION;

POWER MANAGEMENT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0035758751     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.439966     Document Type: Article

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