Snake robots to the rescue!

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 17-25

  Erkmen, Ismet ^a,c   Erkmen, Aydan M ^d   Matsuno, Fumitoshi ^d   Chatterjee, Ranajit ^b   Kamegawa, Tetsushi ^d  

^a METU   (Turkey)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTEROUS DEVICES; INFRARED SENSOR; MODIFIES DISTANCE TRANSFORM; RESCUE ROBOTS; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; SERPENTINE SEARCH ROBOTS; SNAKE ROBOTS; THERMAL CAMERA; ULTRASOUND SENSOR;

CAMERAS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISASTER PREVENTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SENSORS; ROBOT LEARNING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0036757766     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2002.1035210     Document Type: Article

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