Autonomous stair-hopping with scout robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 721-726

  Stoeter, Sascha A ^a   Rybski, Paul E ^a   Gini, Maria ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SENSORS; USER INTERFACES;

SCOUT ROBOT; STAIR HOPPING; VISUAL SERVOING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0036453415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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