Autonomous stair-climbing with miniature jumping robots

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 313-325

  Stoeter, Sascha A ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; External observer; Jumping robot; Mobile robots; Vision based control

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MOTION CONTROL; OBSERVABILITY; REMOTE CONTROL; SENSORS; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTONOMOUS STAIR CLIMBING; EXTERNAL OBSERVER; LOCOMOTION MODE; MINIATURE JUMPING ROBOT; VISION GUIDED CONTROL;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MINIATURIZATION; MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS;

EID: 17444384547     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2004.843270     Document Type: Article

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