Integrated System for Sensing and Traverse of Cliff Faces

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5083, Issue , 2003, Pages 27-37

  Huntsberger, Terry ^a   Sujan, Vivek A ^b   Dubowsky, Steven ^b   Schenker, Paul S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Cliff exploration; Cooperative robots; Information theory; Unstructured environments

Indexed keywords

CLIFF EXPLORATION; COOPERATIVE ROBOTS; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER CONTROL; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION THEORY; LANDFORMS; MOTION PLANNING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 1242326836     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.497548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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