Steering and control of a passively articulated robot

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4571, Issue , 2001, Pages 96-107

  Shamah, Benjamin ^a   Wagner, Michael D ^a   Moorehead, Stewart ^a   Teza, James ^a   Wettergreen, David ^a   Whittaker, William ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MANEUVERABILITY; ROBOTICS; STEERING;

ARTICULATED ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0035764024     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.444150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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