Millibot trains for enhanced mobility

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 452-461

  Brown Jr , H Benjamin ^a   Vande Weghe, J Michael ^b   Bererton, Curt A ^a   Khosla, Pradeep K ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed robotics; Mobility; Modularity; Snakes; Trains

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS;

DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 0036966760     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2002.806226     Document Type: Article

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