Vibration-based terrain analysis for mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3415-3420

  Brooks, Christopher ^a   Iagnemma, Karl ^a   Dubowsky, Steven ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile robots; Pattern classification; Robot vibration sensing; Rough terrain

Indexed keywords

ROBOT VIBRATION SENSING; ROUGH TERRAIN; VIBRATION DATA;

ACCELEROMETERS; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

VIBRATION CONTROL;

EID: 33646362594     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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