Rule-based reasoning and neural network perception for safe off-road robot mobility

Expert Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 191-200

  Tunstel, Edward ^a   Howard, Ayanna ^a   Seraji, Homayoun ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Neural networks; Off road mobility; Planetary rovers; Safe navigation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

RULE-BASED REASONING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036745265     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0394.00204     Document Type: Article

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