Segway Robotic Mobility Platform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5609, Issue , 2004, Pages 207-220

  Nguyen, Hoa G ^a   Morrell, John ^b   Mullens, Katherine ^a   Burmeister, Aaron ^a   Miles, Susan ^c   Farrington, Nathan ^a   Thomas, Kari ^d   Gage, Douglas W ^e  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

^b Segway LLC   (United States)

^c Science and Technology Associates Inc   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic self balancing robot; Segway RMP; Segway Robotic Mobility Platform

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SELF-BALANCING ROBOT; SEGWAY HUMAN TRANSPORTERS (HT); SEGWAY ROBOTIC MOBILITY PLATFORM; SEGWAY ROBOTIC MOBILITY PLATFORM (RMP);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMOBILE HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GROUND VEHICLES; SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 17644394235     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.571750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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