Online terrain parameter estimation for wheeled mobile robots with application to planetary rovers

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 921-927

  Iagnemma, Karl ^a   Kang, Shinwoo ^a   Shibly, Hassan ^b   Dubowsky, Steven ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Birzeit University   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mobile robots; Planetary rovers; Rough terrain; Wheel terrain interaction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MECHANICS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION ESTIMATION; MOTION PLANNING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; WHEELS;

ONLINE ESTIMATION METHOD; PLANETARY ROVERS; ROUGH TERRAIN; TERRAIN PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WHEEL-TERRAIN INTERACTION; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 10244256300     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.829462     Document Type: Article

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