Control of robotic vehicles with actively articulated suspensions in rough terrain

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-16

  Iagnemma, Karl ^a   Rzepniewski, Adam ^a   Dubowsky, Steven ^a   Schenker, Paul ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulated suspension; Mobile robots; Robot control; Rough terrain; Vehicle mobility

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION CONTROL; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SENSORS; SYSTEM STABILITY; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

ACTIVELY ARTICULATED SUSPENSIONS; ROBOT CONTROL; ROBOTIC VEHICLES; ROUGH TERRAIN; VEHICLE MOBILITY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0037269821     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020962718637     Document Type: Article

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