Planetary rover developments supporting mars exploration, sample return and future human-robotic colonization

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 103-126

  Schenker, Paul S ^a   Huntsberger, Terry L ^a   Pirjanian, Paolo ^a   Baumgartner, Eric T ^a   Tunstel, Eddie ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

All terrain mobility; Cooperating robots; Mobile robots; Reconfigurable robots; Robot architecture; Robotic colonies

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MANIPULATORS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NAVIGATION; PLANETARY LANDERS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

ALL TERRAIN EXPLORER; COOPERATING ROBOTS; PLANETARY ROVER; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; ROBOT WORK CREW; ROBOTIC COLONIES; SAMPLE RETURN ROVER;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0037335380     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022271301244     Document Type: Article

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