Measures for wheel slippage and sinkage detection in rough-terrain mobile robots

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Publication) DSC

Volumn 74 DSC, Issue 2 PART B, 2005, Pages 1379-1385

  Reina, Giulio ^a   Ojeda, Lauro ^b   Milella, Annalisa ^c   Borenstein, Johann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROVER-TYPE ROBOTS; WHEEL SINKAGE ESTIMATION; WHEEL SLIP DETECTION; WHEEL-TERRAIN INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33645656510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2005-79711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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