Design of a high-impact survivable robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3551-3558

  O'Halloran, D ^a   Wolf, A ^a   Choset, H ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Robot design; Survivable robot

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INTEGRATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ROBOT DESIGN; ROCKING CHASSIS; SURVIVABLE ROBOT; SUSPENSION SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042553483     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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