Navigability of multi-legged robots

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Go, Yanto ^a   Yin, Xiaolei ^a,b   Bowling, Alan ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback control; Legged locomotion; Navigation; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MECHATRONICS; MOTION PLANNING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

CONTROL ALGORITHM; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; MODULAR SENSORS; TRIPOD GAIT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33244465390     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2005.863361     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. J. Borenstein and H. Everett, "Mobile robot positioning: Sensors and techniques," J. Robot. Syst., vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 231-249, 1997.
2. J. Borenstein and L. Feng, "Measurement and correction of systematic odometry errors in mobile robots," IEEE Trans. Robot. Autom., vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 869-880, Dec. 1996.
3. B. Barshan and H. Durrsant-Whyte, "Inertial navigation systems for mobile robots," IEEE Trans. Robot. Autom., vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 328-342, Jun. 1997.
4. M. Betke and K. Gurvits, "Mobile robot localization using landmarks," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, 1994, vol. 2, pp. 135-142.
5. R. A. Brooks, "Robot that walks; emergent behaviors from a carefully evolved network," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Scottdale, AZ, May 1989, vol. 2, pp. 135-142.
6. C. Angle and R. A. Brooks, "Small planetary rovers," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, Munich, Germany, 1990, pp. 383-388.
7. H. J. Weidemann, F. Pfeiffer, and J. Eltze, "The six-legged TUM walking robot," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, Munich, Germany, Sep. 1994, pp. 12-16.
8. S. Cordes and K. Berns, "Sensor components of the six-legged walking machine LAURON II," in Proc. Int. Conf. Advanced Robotics, 1997, pp. 71-76.
9. R. D. Quinn, G. M. Nelson, and R. J. Bachmann, "Insect designs for improved robot mobility," in Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Climbing and Walking Robots, 2001, pp. 69-76.
10. D. P. Barnes, "Hexapodal robot locomotion over uneven terrain," in Proc. IEEE Conf. Control Applications, Trieste, Italy, Sep. 1998, pp. 441-445.
11. J. E. Clark, J. G. Cham, and S. A. Bailey, "Biomimetic design and fabrication of a hexapod running robot," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, May 2001, vol. 4, pp. 3643-3649.
12. R. Altendorfer, N. Moore, and H. Komsuoglu, "RHex: A biologically inspired hexapod runner," Autonomous Robots, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 207-213, Nov. 2001.
13. B. Gassmann, L. Frommberger, and K. Berns, "Real-time 3d map building for local navigation of a walking robot in unstructured terrain," in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 2003, pp. 2185-2190.
14. M. Veloso, W. Uther, and M. Fujita, "Playing soccer with legged robot," in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, Victoria, BC, Canada, Oct. 1998, pp. 437-442.
15. S. Skaff, G. Kantor, and D. Maiwand, "Inertial navigation and visual line following for a dynamical hexapod robot," in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 2003, pp. 1808-1813.