Design and control of a mobile hyper-redundant urban search and rescue robot

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-248

  Wolf, Alon ^a   Choset, Howard H ^b   Brown Jr , H Benjamin ^a   Casciola, Randall W ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AugmenTech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyper redundant mechanism; Mechatronics; Search and rescue robot; Snake robots; User interface

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CRACKS; KINEMATICS; MECHATRONICS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PIPE; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; USER INTERFACES;

HYPER-REDUNDANT MECHANISM; HYPER-REDUNDANT ROBOT (HRR); SEARCH AND RESCUE ROBOT; SNAKE ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 17044362338     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568553053583652     Document Type: Article

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