Lemur IIb: A robotic system for steep terrain access

Industrial Robot

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 265-269

  Kennedy, Brett ^a   Okon, Avi ^a   Aghazarian, Hrand ^a   Badescu, Mircea ^a   Bao, Xiaoqi ^a   Bar Cohen, Yoseph ^a   Chang, Zensheu ^a   Dabiri, Borna E ^a   Garrett, Mike ^a   Magnone, Lee ^a   Sherrit, Stewart ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drilling (mineral extraction); Force measurement; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MAPS; MOTION ESTIMATION; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

CLIMBING ROBOT; DRILLING (MINERAL EXTRACTION); LOW-LEVEL CONTROL; ROBOTIC SCOUTING AND SURVEILLANCE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33745438215     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910610667872     Document Type: Article

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