Motion planning for a three-limbed climbing robot in vertical natural terrain

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2946-2953

  Bretl, Timothy ^a   Rock, Stephen ^a   Latombe, Jean Claude ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

HURISTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUE; THREE LIMBED CLIMBING ROBOT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0344464986     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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