High speed hazard avoidance for mobile robots in rough terrain

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5422, Issue , 2004, Pages 439-450

  Spenko, Matthew ^a   Iagnemma, Karl ^a   Dubowsky, Steven ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Hazard avoidance; Rough terrain; Trajectory space; Unmanned ground vehicles

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND VEHICLES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLANNING; ROBOTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

HAZARD AVOIDANCE; ROUGH TERRAIN; TRAJECTORY SPACE; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 10444233412     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.553242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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