Design of a low-cost, highly mobile urban search and rescue robot

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 879-899

  Bishop, Bradley E ^a   Crabbe, Frederick L ^a   Hudock, Bryan M ^a  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Locomotion; Mobile robotics; Physical simulation; Rescue robotics

Indexed keywords

LOCOMOTION; MOBILE ROBOTICS; PHYSICAL SIMULATION; RESCUE ROBOTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MORPHOLOGY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 25444510364     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568553055011500     Document Type: Article

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