How UGVs physically fail in the field

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 423-437

  Carlson, Jennifer ^a   Murphy, Robin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure; Failure analysis; Field; Meta study; Mobile robot; Taxonomy; Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FAILURE TAXONOMY; META-STUDY; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 20844431507     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2004.838027     Document Type: Article

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